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a drunken feast in the "great hall", Einar confesses his feelings to Ragnar, who tells Einar that women often need to be taken by force and grants his son to take the prisoner as his. Einar throws the guards off the ship Morgana is being held on, and begins to rape her — defying his expectations and hope for resistance, she offers none, denying him his wish to take her by aggressive force. Before things can go any further, Eric grabs Einar from behind and knocks him out, then takes Morgana away on a small ship he had constructed for Egbert.
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Eric is defeated, his sword broken, but as Einar prepares to deliver the killing blow, he hesitates, having learned the truth from Morgana, and suddenly seeing Ragnar in Eric's defiant face. This gives Eric (who does not yet know they are brothers) the opportunity to fatally stab Einar with his sword's broken blade. Echoing the scene with Ragnar, Eric gives Einar a sword so that he too can enter Valhalla. In the final scene, Einar is given a
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commercial format without any evident attempt to break new ground. Given the story of the Norsemen and the majestic adventures they surely had in carrying their explorations and colonizing the empty northern seas, it does seem that something more heroic and impressive could have been conceived than this copy of a Western, with standard varmints dressed up in shaggy skins."
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The enmity between Eric and Einar is exacerbated when they both fall in love with the Welsh Christian princess Morgana, who was to marry King Aella but is captured in a raid suggested by Egbert, to demand ransom and bring shame and political unpopularity pressure upon the Northumbrian monarch. During
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will curse whoever kills him. He is left in a tidal pool to drown with the rising tide by Ragnar's decree to avoid the curse, but after Eric calls out to Odin, the wind shifts and forces the water away, saving him. Lord Egbert then claims him as his slave property to protect his rights, before Einar,
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Einar finds Morgana in the chapel in the highest tower of the keep and accosts her, telling her she will be his Queen. When Morgana tells Einar that she loves Eric, Einar drags her outside and calls Eric to their long-delayed battle. The two bitter rivals engage in a sword fight on top of the tower.
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in the shape of a fish that Sandpiper obtained in a distant land. Einar, in another longship, believes Ragnar to be dead and grudgingly abandons the chase. Ragnar, however, is rescued by Eric and taken prisoner to Aella. Eric and Morgana become lovers during the trip, and she agrees to seek release
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The film was a hit in the US and overseas, earning $ 6.2 million in the US and Canada (from a gross of $ 15 million) and $ 7 million overseas, including being the 3rd most popular film at the British box office in 1958. Kirk Douglas took no salary for the film in return for 60% of the profits, and
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wrote, "The sight of those sleek Viking barges sweeping across the slate gray seas, loaded with bearded, brawny oarsmen, is something exciting to see, particularly in the wide-screen and color that are used very well in this film." However, Crowther was disappointed "that it follows a frank
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said, "There is nothing here to take seriously; yet, in its straightforward sentimental way, concentrating on some of the oldest elements in story-telling, this film creates a colourful fairy-tale world which is often entrancing, and suffers only from a rather wandering middle section."
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Eric and Morgana flee to England, along with Sandpiper (Eric's friend and fellow slave), Kitala and Morgana's maid Bridget. Einar regains consciousness and gives the alarm, and several pursuing longships quickly gain on the fugitives. In thick fog, Ragnar's
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The dragon longships land, and the Vikings begin to move inland in force. The alarm is sounded, and the castle defenders assemble to repel the Vikings' assault. In a bold move, Einar has several Vikings throw axes at the closed
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stated, "Produced lavishly and filmed with magnificent beauty by that master, Jack Cardiff, 'The Vikings' is so splendid it can't be classed as a dud. But the picture's simple storyline can't escape being a bore."
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called it "spectacular, rousing and colorful," adding, "Douglas, doing a bangup, free-wheeling job as the ferocious and disfigured Viking fighter, fits the part splendidly." Philip K. Scheuer of the
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wrote, "As drama and in emotional content the picture is so elementary, so exaggerated, that it can hardly be taken seriously by the discriminating cinemagoer. A kind of '
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keenly aware of the weather shift, can return and finish him. Egbert hopes to find an opportunity to take advantage of Eric's unknown claim to the Northumbrian kingdom.
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takes the throne. The king's widow, however, is pregnant with Ragnar's child. To protect the infant from her cousin-in-law's ambitions, she sends him off to
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stone of the Northumbrian royal sword Requiter on an amulet around Eric's neck, placed there by Eric's mother when he was a child, but tells no one.
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Aella orders Ragnar bound and thrown into a pit filled with starved wolves. To give Ragnar a Viking's death (so that he can enter
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Eric incurs the wrath of his half-brother Einar, Ragnar's legitimate son and heir, after the former orders his
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to attack Einar, taking out one of his eyes. Eric is saved from immediate execution when the royal court
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hits a rock and sinks, while Eric's boat is guided safely by a primitive compass, a piece of
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has enough balance in its larger-than-life action sequences and characters to entertain."
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The boy grows into a young man named Eric. His parentage is finally discovered by Lord
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Halliwell, Leslie, Halliwell’s Film Guide, second edition, Granada, London, 1977 p.933
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Scheuer, Philip K. (June 20, 1958). "'Vikings' Filled With Violent Action Scenes".
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wrote, "It's terrible stuff, but some of the views of the fiords are impressive."
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Sullivan, Leo (July 3, 1958). "Yep, Those Vikings Are Cowboys of the Fjords".
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based on 22 reviews. The consensus summarizes: "Despite moments of excess,
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and Victoria Theatre on Broadway in New York City on June 11, 1958.
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Kirk Douglas's Bryna Productions produced a 1959 television series
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Cohn, Lawrence (October 15, 1990). "All-Time Film Rental Champs".
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in a double-fold (gatefold) cover packaging in early June 1958.
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United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry
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Cinema Italiano - The Complete Guide From Classics To Cult
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was estimated to have earned $ 3 million from the film.
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and several other Italian made Viking films as well as
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McCarten, John (June 21, 1958). "The Current Cinema".
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Crowther, Bosley (June 15, 1958). "A Norse Western".
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and Maurangsnes, captured on film by cinematographer
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Index

The Vikings (1958 film)

Reynold Brown
Richard Fleischer
Calder Willingham
Dale Wasserman
Edison Marshall
Jerry Bresler
Kirk Douglas
Tony Curtis
Janet Leigh
Ernest Borgnine
James Donald
Alexander Knox
Frank Thring
Orson Welles
Jack Cardiff
Elmo Williams
Mario Nascimbene
Brynaprod
Curtleigh Productions
United Artists
epic
historical fiction
swashbuckling film
Richard Fleischer
Technirama
Technicolor
Jerry Bresler
Kirk Douglas

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