If you've never seen it, and decide to see this movie, I don't think you'll be disappointed, as long as you are expecting color, action, and visiting an exotic world you've never known. It was directed by Richard Fleischer and photographed by Jack Cardiff in Scandinavia with a bombastic and beautiful score by Mario Nascimbene, so the movie is gorgeous and loads of fun.
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You may want to look away once or twice (when a bird heads for Kirk's head & when Tony gets tied to a pillar as the tide comes in) but it is strictly PG.
Some oddly memorable sights and sounds:
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Tony Curtis wears the shortest tunics known to man in the Middle Ages.
A pigtailed Viking girl has hatchets thrown at her.
Ragnar (Ernest Borgnine, chewing the scenery like it was made by Wrigley's) jumps into a pit, bellowing "Odin!!"
Janet Leigh wears the tightest bodices in the Middle Ages. They were just waiting to be ripped.
Orson Welles picked up some pocket money as the narrator, (I suppose it helped pay for The Trial, so it was worth it) .
Not to be morbid, but this movie had one of the great funerals ever shown on film.
Harper Goff, the production designer (uncredited) of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea did a fantastic job on creating a world in the Viking's ships and the castles and villages.
The credits are a wonderful pastiche of the Bayeux Tapestries.
Some--not all, thank goodness--of the movie is highly educational.
Here's part one, though the entire movie is on youtube, and this film is on DVD too. I also love the norsemen who show up in Prince Valiant, The Viking Queen, and The Long Ships (a real howler, with Jack Cardiff as director and Sidney Poitier in a wavy wig) :
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