--- title: 'Kings of the Sun (1963)' type: 'film' director: 'J. Lee Thompson' released: '1963-01-01' runtime_minutes: 107 genres: - 'Adventure' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/kings-of-the-sun-1963' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057225/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Kings of the Sun (1963) 1963 · 107 min · Adventure · United States ## Synopsis Kings of the Sun is a 1963 DeLuxe Color film directed by J. Lee Thompson for Mirisch Productions set in Mesoamerica at the time of the conquest of Chichen Itza by Hunac Ceel. Location scenes were filmed in Mazatlán and Chichen Itza. The film marks the second project Thompson completed with Yul Brynner within a year — the other being Taras Bulba. ## Credits - **Director:** [J. Lee Thompson](https://cinepixo.com/people/j-lee-thompson) - **Screenplay:** [James R. Webb](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-r-webb) - **Original Music Composer:** [Elmer Bernstein](https://cinepixo.com/people/elmer-bernstein) - **Producer:** [Lewis J. Rachmil](https://cinepixo.com/people/lewis-j-rachmil) - **Director of Photography:** [Joseph MacDonald](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-macdonald) - **Editor:** [William H. Reynolds](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-h-reynolds) ## Cast - [Barry Morse](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-morse) as Ah Zok - [Leo Gordon](https://cinepixo.com/people/leo-gordon) as Hunac Ceel - [Brad Dexter](https://cinepixo.com/people/brad-dexter) as Ah Haleb - [Shirley Anne Field](https://cinepixo.com/people/shirley-anne-field) as Ixchel - [Victoria Vetri](https://cinepixo.com/people/victoria-vetri) as Ixzubin - [James Coburn](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-coburn) - [Armando Silvestre](https://cinepixo.com/people/armando-silvestre) as Isatai - [Ford Rainey](https://cinepixo.com/people/ford-rainey) as The chief - [George Chakiris](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-chakiris) as Balam - [Yul Brynner](https://cinepixo.com/people/yul-brynner) as Chief Black Eagle - [Richard Basehart](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-basehart) as Ah Min ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/kings-of-the-sun-1963 Film facts: Wikidata (Q25858); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.