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Released
1954 · FILM

Sign of the Pagan

The Story of Attila the Hun!

Directed by
Runtime
92 min
AdventureBiographyDrama

Synopsis

Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On arrival, he finds the eastern Roman emperor Theodosius plotting with Attila to look the other way while the latter marches against Rome. But Marcian gains the favor of Pulcheria, lovely sister of Theodosius, who favors a united Empire.

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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 Milton CarruthShot by Russell MettyScored by Hans J Salter

Box Office

1954 · Box office

Produced on a $1.3M budget

Production budget

$1.3M

Also known as

  • Attila, der Hunnenkönigde
  • Le Signe du païenfr
  • Il re dei barbariit

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