| Marco Polo | |
| Director: | Piero Pierotti |
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| Music: | Angelo Francisco Lavagnino |
| Cinematography: | Ricardo Pallottini |
| Editing: | Ornella Micheli |
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| Runtime: | 95 min |
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| Budget: | $4 million[2] |
Marco Polo (Italian: L'avventura di un italiano in Cina) is a 1962 historical action adventure film directed by Piero Pierotti. The American English-dubbed version includes scenes directed by Hugo Fregonese and a new score by Les Baxter.[3]
Marco Polo was released in Italy on 21 June 1962, in the United States in August 1962 and in France on 17 May 1963.
In a contemporary review for The New York Times upon the film's American release, critic Eugene Archer wrote: "Rory Calhoun, playing the title role of 'Marco Polo' in doublet and tights, is as dauntlessly American as Gary Cooper, who acted the role in an equally foolish Hollywood version a couple of decades ago. ... Under Hugo Fregonese's passable direction, the swashbuckling saga from American International is predictably juvenile, colorful and harmless. As usual, any resemblance between the dubbed sound track and the events pictured on the screen is purely coincidental."[4]