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Podcast: Houselights: A Film Director Podcast
Episode: House of Scott - 90 - 1492: Conquest of Paradise
Description: ​500 years after Christopher Columbus helmed a famous voyage to the "New World," studios saw the potential for boffo box office by releasing movies to re-memorialize the anniversary. One of two competing films to flop spectacularly, does 1492 sail away with our respect as a work, or does it sink under the weight of its own pretensions?