---
title: 'Seven Cities of Gold (1955)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Robert D. Webb'
released: '1955-09-08'
runtime_minutes: 103
genres:
  - 'Adventure'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/seven-cities-of-gold-1955'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048603/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Seven Cities of Gold (1955)

1955 · 103 min · Adventure · United States


## Synopsis

Seven Cities of Gold is a 1955 American historical adventure film directed by Robert D. Webb and starring Richard Egan, Anthony Quinn and Michael Rennie, filmed in DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope. It tells the story of the eighteenth-century Franciscan priest, Father Junípero Serra and the founding of the first missions in what is now California. The screenplay is based on the 1951 novel The Nine Days of Father Serra by Isabelle Gibson Ziegler. The tag line of the film was "This is the story of the making...and the forging...of California...when men chose gold or God...the sword or the Cross".

## Credits

- **Director:** [Robert D. Webb](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-d-webb)
- **Producer:** [Robert D. Webb](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-d-webb), [Barbara McLean](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbara-mclean)
- **Screenplay:** [Richard L. Breen](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-l-breen)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Hugo Friedhofer](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugo-friedhofer)
- **Director of Photography:** [Lucien Ballard](https://cinepixo.com/people/lucien-ballard)
- **Editor:** [Hugh S. Fowler](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugh-s-fowler)

## Cast

- [Richard Egan](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-egan)
- [Anthony Quinn](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-quinn)
- [Michael Rennie](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-rennie)

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