Marco (Ken Marshall) is appointed as an emissary to southern China, and falls in love with an orphaned Westerner (Kathryn Dowling). Achmet: Leonard Nimoy. Chinkin: Junichi Ishida. Niccolo: Denholm Elliott. Kublai Khan: Ying Ruocheng.

• Vincenzo Labella
• David Butler
• Giuliano Montaldo

• Anne Bancroft
• Vernon Dobtcheff
• Leonard Nimoy