Seven Cities of Gold (film)

Seven Cities of Gold
Directed by	Robert D. Webb
Screenplay by	Richard L. Breen
Based on	The Nine Days of Father Serra 1951 novel by Isabelle Gibson Ziegler
Produced by	Barbara McLean Robert D. Webb
Starring	Richard Egan Anthony Quinn Michael Rennie Jeffrey Hunter Rita Moreno
Cinematography	Lucien Ballard
Edited by	Hugh S. Fowler
Music by	Hugo Friedhofer
Production company	20th Century Fox
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	September 8, 1955 (1955-09-08)
Running time	103 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1.5 million[1]

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".