Marco the Magnificent

A story of endurance, savagery and heroism

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

Adventure

Horst Buchholz

(Marco Polo)

Anthony Quinn

(Kublai Khan)

Orson Welles

(Akerman, Marco's Teacher)

Bruno Cremer

(Guillaume de Tripoli, a Knight Templar)

Omar Sharif

(Sheik Alla Hou)

Robert Hossein

(Prince Nayam)

Akim Tamiroff

(The Old Man of the Mountain)

Elsa Martinelli

(The Woman with the Whip)

Grégoire Aslan

(Achmed Abdullah)

Massimo Girotti

(Nicolo, Marco's Father)

Folco Lulli

(Spinello, Venetian Merchant)

Guido Alberti

(Pope Gregory X)

Jacques Monod

(Nicolo de Vicenza, a Knight Templar)

Miloje 'Mića' Orlović

(Matteo, Marco's Uncle)

Lynne Sue Moon

(Princess Gogatine)

Maria Virginia Onorato

(Alaou's Wife)