The Royal Hunt of the Sun

Adventure, Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Irving Lerner

Status Released

Release Date 1969-10-05

Storyline

The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire for conquest and his sense of honor after friendship and respect develops between captive and captor.

"The birth of a hero. The death of an empire. The adventure of a lifetime."