Seven Cities of Gold is a 1955 historical adventure DeLuxe Color film directed by Robert D.
Webb and starring Richard Egan, Anthony Quinn and Michael Rennie, filmed in CinemaScope.
It tells the story of the eighteenth-century Franciscan priest, Father JunÃpero 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".