Marco the Magnificent (1965)

Director
Denys de La Patellière; Raoul Lévy

Main cast
Horst Buchholz; Anthony Quinn; Orson Welles; Bruno Cremer; Omar Sharif

Genres
Adventure

Description
Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.


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