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Release Date: 1963 Cast: Victoria Vetri, Armando Silvestre, Brad Dexter, Barry Morse, Leo Gordon, Rudy Solari, George Chakiris, Yul Brynner, Ford Rainey, Shirley Anne Field, Richard Basehart
Categories: Movies, Adventure Drama, Adventure, Historical fiction, Action, Epic, Action/Adventure Kings of the Sun is a 1963 movie directed by J. Lee Thompson set in Mesoamerica at the time of the conquest of Chichen Itza by Hunac Ceel. The story is about Mayan refugees who sail to the Mississippi River Valley and lay the foundation for the Mississippian culture complex. The film stars Yul Brynner (Black Eagle), George Chakiris (Balam), Shirley Anne Field (Ixchel), Richard Basehart (head priest), Barry Morse, Brad Dexter, Armando Silvestre, Victoria Vetri (Ixzubin), and Leo Gordon as Hunac Ceel. It was produced by Lewis J. Rachmil, with a music score by Elmer Bernstein, and released by... MORE
Kings of the Sun is a 1963 movie directed by J. Lee Thompson set in Mesoamerica at the time of the conquest of Chichen Itza by Hunac Ceel. The story is about Mayan refugees who sail to the Mississippi River Valley and lay the foundation for the Mississippian culture complex. The film stars Yul Brynner (Black Eagle), George Chakiris (Balam), Shirley Anne Field (Ixchel), Richard Basehart (head priest), Barry Morse, Brad Dexter, Armando Silvestre, Victoria Vetri (Ixzubin), and Leo Gordon as Hunac Ceel. It was produced by Lewis J. Rachmil, with a music score by Elmer Bernstein, and released by United Artists.
Balam is the son of the ruler of a Mayan tribe who use wooden swords (with obsidian edges). His father is killed in battle against steel-blade armed rivals led by Hunac Ceel. Balam succeeds to the throne, but is convinced by his advisers, including the head priest, to lead his followers away from the Yucatán, sail to the American Gulf Coast region, so they might regain their strength and fight again another day.
This new land, though, is a province occupied by an Indian tribe led by Black Eagle, and they are none too pleased about these strange, uninvited immigrants. In a small LESS
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