Marco Polo

1962
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.Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.

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Trivia
With the massive exterior sets, lavish interior sets and a multitude of Asian extras left over from this production, Panda had writers Oreste Biancoli and Duccio Tessari fashion a sword-and-sandal/mythological muscleman epic, Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World (1961), placing hero Maciste in a Chinese setting. Genre specialist Riccardo Freda was brought in to direct, Gordon Scott was cast as Maciste (renamed "Samson" for the U.S. version) and Yôko Tani was kept on as the female lead. It became regarded as one of the better films of that genre.

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Featured in Best in Action: 1962 (2018)

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5/10

Italian Adventure Flick with Rory CALHOUN

If his Hollywood career stalled a bit, an actor like Rory CALHOUN (1922-1999) could still work in the Roman Cinecitta.

His performance as "Marco Polo" is certainly not one of the highlights of his career, but it certainly turned out to be a very respectable adventure film. He has made even greater films alongside Marilyn MONROE in "River of No Return" and under the direction of Sergio Leone in "Il colosso di Rodi". Not to mention the many westerns!

What is very impressive is that the star did not allow himself to be blackmailed with his criminal past in the 1950s, but instead informed the public himself. This is what is called civil courage.