The Adventures of Marco Polo

Toting Binguccio (Ernest Truex) on his back, Gary Cooper (title character) discovers pasta and a Christian (almost, H.B. Warner as "Chen-Tsu") on his first day in China, in Samuel Goldwyn's The Adventures of Marco Polo, 1938.

Emperor Kublai Khan (George Barbier) at court, detailing plans to conquer Japan, then consulting with slimy aide Ahmed (Basil Rathbone), in Samuel Goldwyn's expensive flop The Adventures of Marco Polo, 1938.

Screenwriter Robert E. Sherwood very much at play, as Gary Cooper (title character) interrogates girls, at the behest of Kublai Khan (George Barbier) and aide Ahmed (Basil Rathbone) in Samuel Goldwyn's The Adventures of Marco Polo, 1938.

Opening for Samuel Goldwyn's The Adventures of Marco Polo, 1938, starring Gary Cooper and Basil Rathbone, ending with Ernest Truex (as "Binguccio") inventing a modern swimming pool game on the canals of Venice.