screenshots / Kings of the Sun / 1963 The Mirisch Corporation

Original title: The Mound Builders.

Yul Brenner (The Ten Commandments, Solomon and Sheba) stars in this historical saga set in Mesoamerica at the time of the conquest of Chichen Itza.

Co-star George Chakiris previously worked with Yul Brenner on the adventure film Flight from Ashiya (filmed in 1962 but not released until 1964).

Cast as Ixzubin, actress Victoria Vetri would later star as Sanna in the 1970 prehistoric epic When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth.

Actor Armando Silvestre (Isatai) would go on to be cast in the role of Two Crows in the 1968 western The Scalphunters.

Later film credits for director J. Lee Thompson include The White Buffalo (1977), King Solomon's Mines (1985) and Firewalker (1986).

Filming locations in Mexico include Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, and Estudios Churubusco, Mexico City.

Yul Brenner passed in 1985 at the age of 65.