Marco Polo

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Marco Polo (1962)

12 06/21/1962 (IT) Adventure 1h 35m

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

Piero Pierotti

Director, Writer
Hugo Fregonese

Director
Ennio De Concini

Writer
Duccio Tessari

Writer
Eliana De Sabata

Writer
Oreste Biancoli

Writer
Antoinette Pellevant

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Rory Calhoun

Marco Polo
Yoko Tani

Princess Amurroy
Camillo Pilotto

Grand Khan
Pierre Cressoy

Cuday
Michael Chow

Ciu-Lin
Thien-Huong

Tai-Au
Ernest Van-Mohr
Ada Passeri

Tia Balena
Claudio Undari

Mongka
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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 th... read the rest.

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