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Released
1955 · FILM

Seven Cities of Gold

This is the story of the making...and the forging...of California...when men chose gold or God...the sword or the Cross!

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Runtime
103 min
AdventureBiographyDrama

Synopsis

In 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new converts and establish a network of Catholic missions.

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Principal cast & crew: 19

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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 Hugh S FowlerShot by Lucien BallardScored by Hugo Friedhofer

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