Ahmed shows Marco his private tower with vultures and executes a spy via a trapdoor into a lion pit. Kublai agrees and Marco immediately becomes a favored guest. His reasoning behind this is that they are the perfect ladies-in-waiting, not overly intelligent, and honest. Marco tests them all with a question ('How many teeth does a snapping turtle have?'), and he sends off the ones who had incorrectly guessed the answer, as well as those who had told him the correct answer (none), retaining those saying they did not know.

Marco is granted an audience with the emperor at the same time as a group of ladies-in-waiting arrive Kublai Khan lets Marco test the maidens to find out which are the most worthy. Marco, arriving at the palace, sees Kukachin praying for a handsome husband. Kublai Khan promises Princess Kukachin ( Sigrid Gurie) to the King of Persia. Meanwhile, at the Palace, Ahmed ( Basil Rathbone), the Emperor's adviser, harboring dubious ambitions of his own, convinces Emperor Kublai Khan that his army of a million men can conquer Japan. Children explode a firecracker, and Marco thinks it could be a weapon. Warner) is the first friend they make in the city, and invites them into his home for a meal of spaghetti. The philosopher/fireworks-maker Chen Tsu ( H. 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). Nicolo Polo shows treasures from China and sends his son Marco Polo ( Gary Cooper) there with his assistant (and comic relief) Binguccio ( Ernest Truex). It was one of the most elaborate and costly of Samuel Goldwyn's productions. The Adventures of Marco Polo is a 1938 adventure film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, and Basil Rathbone.

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