Mongol

When I was a child, Omar Sharif was my image of Genghis Khan.  I had seen the big-screen Hollywood biopic, perhaps the last to be made in the tradition of Ben-Hur and El Cid, with Omar as Temudjin, Stephen Boyd as the villainous Jamuga, and Robert Morley, of all people, as the Chinese Emperor.  The love interest, Temudjin's wife Borte, was played by the astoundingly blonde Francoise Dorleac (Catherine Deneuve's older sister).  Other notable Caucasians in the cast included Eli Wallach, James M...