The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)

Directors

Archie Mayo, John Cromwell

Cast

Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone, George Barbier

The story

Nicolo Polo shows treasures from China and sends his son Marco Polo (Gary Cooper) there with his assistant (and comic relief) Binguccio (Ernest Truex). They sail from Venice, are shipwrecked, and cross the desert of Persia and the mountains of Tibet to China, to seek out Peking and the palace of China's ruler, Kublai Khan (George Barbier). The philosopher/fireworks-maker Chen Tsu (H.

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