Back in 1963, John Wayne was shooting Circus World (known as The Magnificent Showman in UK) with Claudia Cardinale and Rita Hayworth.

Duke starred as Wild West circus star Matt Masters in the movie that received mixed reviews and would ultimately be a financial disappointment.

Fans will remember there’s a climatic circus fire scene in the movie, but it ended up being a real-life flaming disaster that burned through 40 sequel feet of the Aranjuez set.

In fact, it was such a close call that…