Artículo escrito por Cecil Adams acerca de "The Conqueror"

En la página de internet "The straight Dope" encontramos un artículo escrito por Cecil Adams en donde habla acerca de la película "The Conqueror" y de la enfermedad que desarrollaron los actores y otras personas relacionadas con la película. Aquí un pequeño fragmento en donde hablan de Pedro Armendáriz.

"(...)Many people involved in the production knew about the radiation (there's a picture of Wayne himself operating a Geiger counter during the filming), but no one took the threat seriously at the time. Thirty years later, however, half the residents of St. George had contracted cancer, and veterans of the production began to realize they were in trouble. Actor Pedro Armendariz developed cancer of the kidney only four years after the movie was completed, and later shot himself when he learned his condition was terminal.(...)"

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Pedro Armendáriz y Dolores del Río en "Las abandonadas (1944)"