Marco Polo movie

Year: 1962

Duration: 01:39:58

Directed by: Piero Pierotti, Hugo Fregonese

Actors:  Rory Calhoun, Yoko Tani, Camillo Pilotto

Language: Italian

Country: Italy / France

Also known as: L’avventura di un italiano in Cina

Description:

Colourful but lackluster peplum version (a measure of its clumsiness is the fact that a barbed narrator is heard occasionally during the film’s initial stages, but after a whilst he’s all but overlooked!), in which a great deal of the detail is identical to the similarly fabricated 1938 movie.

 

Marco Polo drops for Kublai Khan’s Khan, daughter’s evil lieutenant – played to the hilt by Robert Hundar – is planning to usurp the throne and wed the princess himself, our hero befriends a band of rebels and guides them – in explosive fashion – into the town, etc. Khan’s daughter is played by, Diminutive, porcelain, graceful pretty Japanese actress Yoko Tani was born and elevated in France and was making a living as a Parisienne dancer whenever possibilities for film arrived her means in the mid-1950s.

 

Still, it’s not hard to see just how Rory Calhoun right here is even less appropriate to the needs of the part, though he’s even more of a ladies’ guy than Gary Cooper!

 

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Marco Polo 1962

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