It must have seemed a good idea at the time, Omar Sharif as the charismatic leader of the Mongol Horde, uniting the tribes and being generally heroic.
But this really is unwatchable dross for the most part.
The only good bits are the unintentionally funny ones, in which James Mason plays the chief courtier to Robert Morley's Chinese Emperor. They don't quite manage to be successful caricatures, however hard the script writer tried to make them so, but they do have the immense advantage of being horribly miscast.
But this really is unwatchable dross for the most part.
The only good bits are the unintentionally funny ones, in which James Mason plays the chief courtier to Robert Morley's Chinese Emperor. They don't quite manage to be successful caricatures, however hard the script writer tried to make them so, but they do have the immense advantage of being horribly miscast.