Résumé: Producer Irving Allen’s 1965 production, Genghis Khan, was clearly intended to rank with the epics of the day, with its location production (Yugoslavia, rather than Asia), stars (including Omar Sharif, James Mason, and Eli Wallach), and high production values (Cinemascope and Technicolor), but the film didn’t quite live up to its ambition. Perhaps because of its revisionist approach to the subject matter (“no woman will be taken against her will,” declares Sharif, as Genghis), or the cross-cultural casting...