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Marco Polo

Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.

Top Cast

  • Rory Calhoun

    Rory Calhoun

    Marco Polo

  • Yoko Tani

    Yoko Tani

    Princess Amurroy

  • Camillo Pilotto

    Camillo Pilotto

    Grand Khan

  • Pierre Cressoy

    Pierre Cressoy

    Cuday

  • Michael Chow

    Michael Chow

    Ciu-Lin

  • Thien-Huong

    Thien-Huong

    Tai-Au

  • Ernest Van-Mohr

    Ernest Van-Mohr

  • Ada Passeri

    Ada Passeri

    Tia Balena

  • Claudio Undari

    Claudio Undari

    Mongka

Overview

Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.

Rating

4.5 / 10
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  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    6 Apr 13, 2023

    Someone obviously thought that the "Conqueror" (1956) wasn't a bad idea, so decided to assign B-movie stalwart Rory Calhoun the task of portraying the legendary Venetian explorer Marco Polo as he ventures into the Chinese empire. As history has rather defined the man, there is not a great deal of jeopardy to this story - it's all about the creative narrative, and that delivers us a perfectly enjoyable adventure film with plenty of Oriental mischief-making, plotting, intrigues - a smattering of gunpowder, and a little romance with the dazzling Princess "Amurroy" (Yôko Tani) who is daughter of the all-powerful Kublai Khan (Camillo Pilotto). It is an Italian production, but that doesn't seem to have added much authenticity to this - it is still a relatively low budget affair that centres around a star who really wasn't big enough to carry the role (if not the part) leaving us with, well, just a little too little. That said, it's watchable on a the telly on wet afternoon, just be aware - historians need probably not bother.

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