Like most movie stars, John Wayne had some huge hits but also big turkeys over his Hollywood career.

The Conqueror, in which Duke played Genghis Khan after Marlon Brando backed out, may have made a profit at the box office but is now ranked as one of the worst films ever made.

Duke is widely believed to have been terribly miscast, even at the time, with The New Times calling the 1956 epic “an Oriental Western” with a script featuring “few unintentional laughs.”

Yet what’s even worse…