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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304329009
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6304329008
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: February 11, 1997
Running Time: 125 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: June 24, 1964
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Looking for a rousing Viking adventure that's cheesy and entertaining? The Long Ships is just the movie for you. As England's greatest color cinematographer, Jack Cardiff had filmed 1958's The Vikings, so he was well-prepared to direct this exciting, occasionally grisly mini-epic (a British/Yugoslavian coproduction, filmed in Yugoslavia), which received mixed-to-favorable reviews when released in 1964. Back then, it was a perfect matinee marvel if you were young and impressionable, and it's still worth its weight in hot buttered popcorn. While that most contemporary of actors, Richard Widmark, is clearly out of place as a maverick Norse warrior, he's sufficiently valiant as he guides his Viking brother (Russ Tamblyn, still hot from West Side Story) and a long-ship full of warriors in search of a huge, solid-gold bell coveted by Mansuh (Sidney Poitier), a Moorish prince obsessed with retrieving the legendary bell at any cost. Treacherous maelstroms, lovely damsels, corny battles, and casual humor make The Long Ships a lot of fun--like a Ray Harryhausen adventure without the animated creatures. (Oh, and Mr. Poitier? James Brown called... he wants his hair back.) --Jeff Shannon
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Rating:  -
Well I remember seeing this film on televison in the 1960s and thought this was great. But after watching it again, man were Richard Widmark and Sidney Potier slumming. I had always rated it on the same level as Kirk Douglas' The Vikings not even close. Really hoky, poor costuming, acting a real low level. I guess it was most done to show off Richard's legs for the most part. Viking ship in the wide sceens obviously a model. I guees this one should have remained a memory.
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"The Long Ships" is the story of a mighty gold bell "as tall as three tall men," the one people call the Mother of Voices, cast long ago by the monks of Byzantium...
Prince Aly Mansuh had searched from the mountains to the sea for the bell... Now he must know what lies beyond the horizon until Allah's divine guidance leads him to the treasures of Islam...
Prince Aly's wife Aminah thinks that her husband is chasing a legend, a fairy tale that has already cost them dearly ... Read More
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The Long Ships
This was one of my favourite Saturday afternoon at the movies adventure movie that I was adicted to as a kid. It is very easy to enjoying this DVD for its high spirited adventure the pure nostalgic factor without having to lament that it is basically a B movie - a pretty good B movie. Besides it is a great popcorn with the kids movie and will likely be just as well received by the grandkids in a few years. Based on the enjoyable story line, it would be nice if they remade ... Read More
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Like others I saw this film when I was a kid. Watching it now I still have the sense of fun I did when I was about ten. I'm not blind to it's faults. I love Richard Widmark but a Viking? It's a stretch to say the least. At least he doesn't have that sick Tommy Udo laugh! Russ Tamblyn -- a minor name off WEST SIDE STORY. Edward Judd (probably best remembered for Ray Harryhausen's FIRST MEN IN THE MOON) and Oscar Winner Sidney Poitier. Oscar Holmolka as Rolfe and Orm's drunken Viking lord father who ... Read More
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THIS IS ONE OF THE WORST MOVIES I HAVE EVER WATCHED. I ONLY WATCHED PART OF IT BEFORE I THREW IT IN THE GARBAGE. TERRIBLE ACTING. SILLY PLOT. JUST A RIDICULOUS MOVIE.
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