Marco Polo

Marco Polo is an Italian-French adventure film about the Venetian traveller arriving in China and becoming entangled in a plot against the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan. While rescuing the Khan's daughter from bandits, Marco is drawn into the scheming of a minister who wants the throne for himself. Along the way he learns the secret of gunpowder and turns that knowledge into a cannon, giving the Khan's forces a new kind of weapon against the conspirators.

The film is directed by Piero Pierotti and Hugo Fregonese, with a screenplay by Oreste Biancoli, Ennio De Concini and Eliana De Sabata. Rory Calhoun plays Marco Polo, with Yoko Tani as Princess Amurroy, Camillo Pilotto as the Grand Khan, Pierre Cressoy, Michael Chow and Thien-Huong in supporting roles. For Fregonese, the film comes between Black Tuesday and Old Shatterhand.

On IMDb, Marco Polo holds a rating of 5.2 out of 10 from around 210 votes, a modest showing that suggests limited enthusiasm among those who have seen it. It runs 95 minutes.