I just found this out while looking up Dick Powell in Wikipedia, and was surprised to read about this cancer the cast and crew had because of the filming.
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This might explain some of the early years of film, maybe it was the radiation that caused cancer in these people, then it could have also been that they were also smokers:---
Actor David Powell directed The Conqueror (1956) starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan.---The exterior scenes were filmed in St. George, Utah, downwind of US above-ground atomic tests. The cast and crew totaled 220 and of that number: 91 had developed some form of cancer by 1981and46 had died of cancer by then, including Wayne. This cancer rate is about three times higher than one would expect in a group of this size and many have argued that radioactive fallout was the cause.
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