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- When Venetian explorer Marco Polo (Gary Cooper) and his assistant, Binguccio (Ernest Truex), travel to Peking to locate Chinese treasures, they meet Emperor Kublai Khan (George Barbier) and his beautiful daughter, Princess Kukachin (Sigrid Gurie).
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The Adventures of Marco Polo: Directed by Archie Mayo, John Cromwell. With Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone, George Barbier. Adventurer Marco Polo travels to China, where he finds the Emperor Kublai Khan, court intrigue, danger, and unexpected love.
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Rent The Adventures of Marco Polo on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. When Venetian explorer Marco Polo (Gary Cooper) and his assistant, Binguccio (Ernest Truex), travel to Peking...
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The opening title cards state that Marco Polo (Gary Cooper) was the first European to visit China and "the first travelling salesman". Even if you do believe Marco went to China, he himself claims that his father Niccolò and uncle Maffeo Polo went first. He was blatantly not the first travelling salesman. The first evidence of long international tr...
Marco sets off from Venice in historically incorrect fashion, accompanied only by a servant. In real life, he travelled with Niccolò and Maffeo. There follows an onerous voyage: a storm on the Med, the sands of the desert, the snows of Tibet. Fortunately, the Great Wall of China soon heaves into view. Like tea, foot-binding and calligraphy, the Gre...
Marco rocks up at the Mongol court of Kublai Khan (George Barbier) and falls for the Khan's daughter Kukachin (Sigrid Gurie). "You are from a strange world," she simpers. "You do not even look like other people." Actually, he looks a lot like everyone here, because all the speaking parts in Hollywood's version of medieval China have been filled by ...
Marco is sent to fight a rebellious chief, Kaidu (Alan Hale). He is taken prisoner, but survives by becoming a sex slave to Kaidu's queen. Little of this really happened, though there was a lengthy conflict between Kublai and Kaidu, his first cousin once removed and leader of the Chagatai Khanate. Film fans might amuse themselves by spotting the yo...
At least this is set alongside something that did happen: Kublai Khan trying to invade Japan. His two invasion attempts, in 1274 and 1281, are another source of doubt about the Description of the World. Recent research found errors in Marco's descriptions of the Mongol fleet, and suggests he confused the two invasions. Moreover, Frances Wood, head ...
Not a great movie about 13th-century China – but the racial attitudes, sex obsession and crimes against eyebrows say plenty about 1930s Hollywood.
Gary Cooper plays the role of Marco , a venetian adventurer , in this all star production of Marco Polo's adventures . Young Marco travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own assistant , with a new invention : gunpowder .
Adventures of Marco Polo, The -- (Movie Clip) Snapping Turtle Screenwriter Robert E. Sherwood very much at play, as Gary Cooper (title character) interrogates girls, at the behest of Kublai Khan (George Barbier) and aide Ahmed (Basil Rathbone) in Samuel Goldwyn's The Adventures of Marco Polo, 1938.
Oct 9, 2014 · Venice, Italy, 1273. Importer Nicolo Polo (Henry Kolker), determined to open a exporting pipeline for the riches that lie in heretofore closed-off China, sends his adventure-loving son, Marco (Gary Cooper), to the mysterious Orient to secure the trade contracts.
Apr 5, 2019 · The Adventures of Marco Polo. Directed by Archie Mayo. 104 mins (1938) Gary Cooper - Marco Polo. Marco Polo travels from Venice to Peking, where he quickly discovers spaghetti and gunpowder and falls in love with the Emperor's daughter.
