His Movie Killed People
Hughes’s guilt over “The Conqueror” wasn’t just because it was a commercial failure. The film was shot downwind of a nuclear testing facility. The federal government assured the filmmakers that the tests posed no risk to public health. However, many of the cast and crew died from cancer, though whether it was directly due to the nuclear fallout is unclear. Hughes, however, took the movie out of circulation after he bought all the copies.