Hi
I have just been reading about The Aviator which is about to come out over here.
The times gives a pen picture of Howard Hughes life and contains the following.
QuoteHis choice of films also became more eccentric. There is a perverse humour in casting John Wayne as the young Gengis Khan in the Conqueror (1956) and having him brag with a straight face about the tp of his lance. But what was Hughes thinking when he had the production shoot in Utah only 100 miles down wind from a nuclear test site, then have 60 tons of radioactive sand in Los Angeles to match the set for close ups. Memos suggest that hughes was well aware that cast and crew were at risk. Almost eighty per cent of those who worked on the film including Wayne, Susan hayward and the director Dick Powell were to die of cancer
I don't know what the picture is like our papers are giving it a very good reception.
Regards
Arthur