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Marco Polo

  • 19621962
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
5.1/10
115
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Marco Polo (1962)
  • Adventure
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.
IMDb RATING
5.1/10
115
YOUR RATING
  • Directors
    • Piero Pierotti
    • Hugo Fregonese(US version)
  • Writers
    • Oreste Biancoli
    • Ennio De Concini
    • Eliana De Sabata
  • Stars
    • Rory Calhoun
    • Yôko Tani
    • Camillo Pilotto
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  • Directors
    • Piero Pierotti
    • Hugo Fregonese(US version)
  • Writers
    • Oreste Biancoli
    • Ennio De Concini
    • Eliana De Sabata
  • Stars
    • Rory Calhoun
    • Yôko Tani
    • Camillo Pilotto
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    • 5User reviews
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    Rory Calhoun and Robert Hundar in Marco Polo (1962)
    Rory Calhoun in Marco Polo (1962)
    Rory Calhoun in Marco Polo (1962)
    Rory Calhoun, Roberto Paoletti, and Yôko Tani in Marco Polo (1962)
    Rory Calhoun in Marco Polo (1962)
    Rory Calhoun and Yôko Tani in Marco Polo (1962)
    Rory Calhoun in Marco Polo (1962)
    Rory Calhoun and Thea Fleming in Marco Polo (1962)
    Rory Calhoun in Marco Polo (1962)
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    Rory Calhoun
    Rory Calhoun
    • Marco Polo
    Yôko Tani
    Yôko Tani
    • Princess Amurroy
    Camillo Pilotto
    Camillo Pilotto
    • Grand Khan
    Pierre Cressoy
    Pierre Cressoy
    • Cuday
    Michael Chow
    Michael Chow
    • Ciu-Lin
    Tiny Yong
    • Tai-Au
    • (as Thien-Huong)
    Franco Ammirata
    Tonino Cianci
    Paola Falchi
    • Fatima
    Thea Fleming
    • Harem girl
    Angelo Galassi
    Robert Hundar
    Robert Hundar
    • Mongka
    Anna Maestri
    Spartaco Nale
    Ching Jen Pai
    Roberto Paoletti
    Ada Passari
    • Tia Balena
    • (as Ada Passeri)
    Bianca Pividori
    • Directors
      • Piero Pierotti
      • Hugo Fregonese(US version)
    • Writers
      • Oreste Biancoli
      • Ennio De Concini
      • Eliana De Sabata
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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.
    • Connections
      Featured in Best in Action: 1962 (2018)

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    4/10
    MARCO POLO (Hugo Fregonese and Piero Pierotti, 1961) **
    Colorful but lackluster peplum version (a measure of its clumsiness is the fact that a sarcastic narrator is heard intermittently during the film's initial stages, but after a while he's all but forgotten!), in which a good deal of the detail is identical to the equally fictitious 1938 film: Marco Polo falls for Kublai Khan's daughter, Khan's evil lieutenant - played to the hilt by Robert Hundar - is planning to usurp the throne and marry the princess himself, our hero befriends a band of rebels and leads them - in explosive fashion - into the city, etc. Still, it's not hard to see how Rory Calhoun here is even less suited to the requirements of the role, though he's even more of a ladies' man than Gary Cooper!

    In itself, the film is harmless enough but since an even more elaborate (if no more successful) version - the star-studded MARCO THE MAGNIFICENT (1965) - was just behind the corner, this one feels quite redundant; that said, its vast Chinese settings were re-used later for Riccardo Freda's silly hybrid SAMSON AND THE SEVEN MIRACLES OF THE WORLD (1961)!
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    • Release date
      • August 1962 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Italy
      • France
    • Language
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Marko Polo
    • Filming locations
      • Piazza San Marco, Venice, Veneto, Italy
    • Production companies
      • Alta Vista
      • Filmorsa
      • Panda Film
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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