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Released
1963 · FILM

Kings of the Sun

Now a lost world becomes a new world of adventure!

Directed by
Runtime
108 min
AdventureDramaHistory

Synopsis

In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of what will become the United States. They build a home in the new land but come into conflict with a tribe of Native Americans led by their chief, Black Eagle, while both Balam and Black Eagle fall in love the beautiful Mayan princess Ixchel.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by William ReynoldsShot by Joseph MacdonaldScored by Elmer Bernstein

Box Office

1963 · Box office

Produced on a $4.0M budget

Production budget

$4.0M

Also known as

  • Könige der Sonnede
  • Los reyes del soles
  • Les Rois du soleilfr
  • I re del soleit

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