In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of the fierce but avuncular General Bayan, and journeys all the way to China, where both men become involved in intrigues in the court of Kublai Khan.

• 20th Century Fox
• Tyrone Power
• Orson Welles
• Cécile Aubry
• Jack Hawkins
• Michael Rennie
• Finlay Currie
• Herbert Lom
• Mary Clare