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The Royal Hunt of the Sun

  • 19691969
  • GG
  • 1h 58m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
754
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The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
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In 1532, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro leads an expedition into the heart of the Inca Empire and captures the Incan Emperor Atahualpa and claims Peru for Spain.In 1532, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro leads an expedition into the heart of the Inca Empire and captures the Incan Emperor Atahualpa and claims Peru for Spain.In 1532, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro leads an expedition into the heart of the Inca Empire and captures the Incan Emperor Atahualpa and claims Peru for Spain.
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
754
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    • Irving Lerner
    • Peter Shaffer(play)
    • Philip Yordan
  • Stars
    • Robert Shaw
    • Christopher Plummer
    • Nigel Davenport
    • Irving Lerner
    • Peter Shaffer(play)
    • Philip Yordan
  • Stars
    • Robert Shaw
    • Christopher Plummer
    • Nigel Davenport
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    • 30User reviews
    • 13Critic reviews
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    The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
    Leonard Whiting in The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
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    Christopher Plummer in The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
    Christopher Plummer in The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
    Christopher Plummer in The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
    Robert Shaw in The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
    Nigel Davenport in The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
    Christopher Plummer in The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
    Christopher Plummer and Robert Shaw in The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
    Robert Shaw and Leonard Whiting in The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)

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    Robert Shaw
    Robert Shaw
    • Francisco Pizarro
    Christopher Plummer
    Christopher Plummer
    • Atahuallpa
    Nigel Davenport
    Nigel Davenport
    • Hernando de Soto
    Leonard Whiting
    Leonard Whiting
    • Young Martin
    Michael Craig
    Michael Craig
    • Estete
    Andrew Keir
    Andrew Keir
    • Valverde
    William Marlowe
    William Marlowe
    • Candia
    James Donald
    James Donald
    • King Carlos
    Alexander Davion
    Alexander Davion
    • De Nizza
    Shmulik Kraus
    Shmulik Kraus
    • Felipillo
    • (as Sam Krauss)
    Percy Herbert
    Percy Herbert
    • Diego
    David Bauer
    David Bauer
    • Villac Umu
    Danny Yordan
    • Vasca
    Alfredo Porras
    • Manco
    Joaquín Parra
    • Mendoza
    • (as Joaquin Parra)
    José Panizo
    • Salinas
    • (as Jose Panzio)
    Óscar Álvarez
    • Rodas
    • (as Oscar Alvarez)
    Lisardo De La Inglesia
    • Domingo
    • (as Lisardo de la Inglesia)
      • Irving Lerner
      • Peter Shaffer(play)
      • Philip Yordan
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    • Trivia
      Citing frustrations with typecasting and the infrequency of high-quality roles, Christopher Plummer wanted to concentrate on directing and had suggested that this movie might be his last film appearance.
    • Quotes

      Francisco Pizarro: You'll have to furnish me with better argument before I give up Atahualpa!

      Estete: Perverse man, what is Atahualpa to you?

      Francisco Pizarro: Someone I promised life.

      Estete: Promised life. How quaint. The sort of chivalrous idea that you pretend to despise. If you want to be an absolute king, my man, you have to learn how to act out of self-will! Break your word, just because you made it! 'Til then, you're nothing but a... a pig-man trying to copy his betters.

      Valverde: My son, listen to me. No promise to a Pagan need bind a Christian. Simply think what's at stake. The lives of one hundred and sixty-seven of the faithful. Are you willing to sacrifice them for one savage?

      Francisco Pizarro: You know lives have no weight. Ten cannot be added up to outbalance one.

      Valverde: Ten good can against one evil, and this man is evil. His people kiss his hands as the source of life!

      Francisco Pizarro: As we do yours. All day you play at being God. You only hate my Inca because he does it better! I despise you! 'Kill who I bid you kill, and I will pardon it'? You with your milky fingers, forcing in the blade? How dare you priests bless a man going into battle? 'Rip!' you scream. 'Tear, blind, in the name of Christ!' Tell me, soft Father - if Christ were here, would He kill the Inca?

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      Referenced in The Deep (1977)

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    5/10
    Atahualpa versus Quechua: Atahualpa and the movie lost
    I saw "Royal Hunt of the Sun" soon after it came out, probably early 1970, in a theater in Cuzco, Peru. The audience was full of speakers of Quechua, and when Christopher Plummer said his first lines in, supposedly, Quechua -- twisting his face, going up and down rapidly from normal voice to falsetto, making little hawking and guttural noises in his throat in a weird impression of the glottal stops of the language -- people started chuckling, and then started actually falling out of their seats in rolling waves of laughter. Atahualpa, king of the American equivalent of the Roman Empire, inheritor of 2000 years of sophisticated cultural history, looked and sounded like a chimpanzee trying to speak German. Lack of respect? Failure to take the trouble to find a proper tutor for the few lines Plummer had to speak of Quechua? Who knows. But it was hard for the audience -- or me -- to take the movie seriously after that scene. I saw the movie again 10 or 15 years later, and couldn't help laughing all over again... and explaining to my family why it was so hilarious.
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      • October 1969 (United Kingdom)
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
      • English
      • Quechua
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      • Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain
    • Production companies
      • Benmar Productions
      • Cinema Center Films
      • Royal Films
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