Ann Blyth makes a lovely and fetching princess of Samarkand. But in The Golden
Horde her main concern is saving her city from all kinds of tribes who want conquer it and her.
Into her life comes a knight who is an emissary of the Christian kings
of the west offering aid. Today David Farrar would be a military adviser.
A lot of double and triple dealing is involved before a climatic battle which is
staged quite well. The cast also does well with the hokey dialog they have to
spout.
Universal turned out these medieval Mideast epics the better to take advantage
of the sets built for Maria Montez This is far from the best of them.