Secret of the Incas [SEP] distributor
Hollywood studio filmed at this archeological site. A sixteen-person unit including Heston, producer Mel Epstein and director Jerry Hopper spent a month filming footage in Peru in 1953.
Five hundred indigenous people were used as extras in the film. 
The film also featured the Peruvian singer Yma Sumac as Kori-Tica.
The female lead was to have been played by Viveca Lindfors. However after the positive response to Nicole Maurey's performance in "Little Boy Lost" Paramount gave her the role. Thomas Mitchell was signed
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