Rory Calhoun

Yoko Tani

Camillo Pilotto

Pierre Cressoy

Michael Chow

Thien-Huong

Ernest Van-Mohr

Ada Passeri

Claudio Undari

Hugo Fregonese

Piero Pierotti

Oreste Biancoli

Ermanno Donati

Riccardo Pallottini

Jovan Radić

Angelo Francesco Lavagnino

Miodrag Mirić

Duccio Tessari

Ornella Micheli

Franco Fumagalli

Euclide Santoli

Lina Geleng

Zoran Zorčić

Mario Giorsi

Eliana De Sabata

Antoinette Pellevant

Luigi Carpentieri

Ennio De Concini

Aurelio Crugnola

Franca Bartolomei

Adventure

Marco Polo

Panda Films

Filmorsa

Alta Vista

France

Italy

CinemaSerf

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.

Italiano

Marco Polo (1962) Original Trailer [FHD]