Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon

Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon
Directed byEric Porter
Written bySheldon Moldoff
Produced by
  • Sheldon Moldoff
  • Eric Porter
Starring
Production
companies
Distributed byBritish Empire Films
Release dates
  • December 1972 (1972-12) (Australia)
  • 12 April 1973 (1973-04-12) (United States)
Running time
82 minutes[1]
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$650,000[2]

Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon (also known as Marco Polo Junior or The Red Red Dragon in the United States[3]) is a 1972 Australian animated musical adventure film directed by Eric Porter, written by Sheldon Moldoff, and was the country's first animated feature film.[4][5]

The two sequence directors were Porter's animation director Cam Ford (who had previously worked on the Beatles' Yellow Submarine) and Peter Gardiner. The film was later re-edited and combined with new sequences to become Marco Polo: Return to Xanadu in 2001.[6]

  1. ^ "Marco Polo Junior (U)". British Board of Film Classification. 21 March 1973. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference pike was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Limited, Alamy. "Stock Photo - THE RED RED DRAGON, (aka MARCO POLO JR., aka MARCO POLO JUNIOR VERSUS THE RED DRAGON), US poster, 1972". Alamy. Retrieved 29 January 2020. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  4. ^ "Animation in Australia". Australian Government, Culture Portal. 24 November 2008. Archived from the original on 16 April 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
  5. ^ Vagg, Stephen (23 December 2019). "Australian Film Musicals You Probably Didn't Realise Existed". Filmink.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Lenburg was invoked but never defined (see the help page).