The Adventures of Marco Polo

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The Adventures of Marco Polo ★★½ 1938

Lavish Hollywood production based on the exploits of 13th-century Venetian explorer Marco Polo (Cooper). He becomes the first white man to record his visit to the Eastern court of Kublai Khan, where he falls for a beautiful princess also desired by the evil Rathbone. Lots of action, though its hard to picture the laconic Cooper in the title role. 100m/B VHS, DVD . Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone, Ernest Truex, George Barbier, Binnie Barnes, Alan Hale, H.B. Warner; D: Archie Mayo; W: Robert Sherwood; M: Hugo Friedhofer.

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