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Romeo Muller (writer)
Release Date:
December 1973 (USA) more
Plot:
Marco Polo, the well known adventurer and merchant's son from Venice in Italy, travels all through asia to find the great Khan... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Desi Arnaz Jr. ... Marco Polo
Van Christie ... Chontosai
Aimée Eccles ... Kuklatoi
Yuka Kamebuchi ... Mme. Tung
Zero Mostel ... Kublai Khan
Romeo Muller ... Pitai Brahmas
Tetsu Nakamura ... Sea Captain
Osamu Ohkawa ... Ling Su
Masumi Okada ... Ti Wai
Fred Sadoff ... Niccolo Polo
Mafumi Sakamoto ... Letanpoing
Ikio Sawamura ... Lomar
Jack Weston ... Maffio Polo
Cie Cie Win ... Aigiarm
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USA:109 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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Canada:PG (Ontario) | USA:G

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Mr. Arnaz's one stab at stardom, 30 April 2005
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Author: Kenneth Anderson (efitness2@yahoo.com) from Los Angeles

I saw this movie on TV many years ago and haven't seen or heard of it since. My vague memory is of it looking very cheap and international, like the Elizabeth Taylor version of "The Bluebird." The cast all seemed to have been post-dubbed (badly) and the sets looked very small and claustrophobic.

Desi Arnaz, Jr. made for a very weak lead and I can't recall a single song he sang. I do remember that he is somehow saddled with a princess who turns out to be a real self-reliant warrior and feminist and that I liked her character a lot. The one song I still remember is one butch number called "By Damn!" which she sings while essentially doing a striptease out of her warrior armor.

The film comes to life when Zero Mostel is on screen, causing poor charisma-free Arnaz to just fade into the scenery. It's easy to see why he never took off as a screen actor.

Somewhere mixed in the plot is the hunt for whales to get ambergris to put into perfume.

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