Always loved this movie as a true guilty pleasure. Superb over-the-top nonsense with that amazing music score, with its can-never-get-it-out-of-your-head main theme. Poitier's a riot to watch in this....as if Othello got dropped into a comic-book swordplay movie. And this was the third time that
Widmark and Poitier were film adverseries...they faced of in the classic anti-racism editorial "No Way Out" and the cold war nukes-at-sea thriller "The Bedford Incident"
They are suppose to be best friends in real life.
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Pretty dire, but if you love vikings and Sidney Poitier then you are pretty limited. The women are lovely and the action is actually believable for 1960!
shareYeah, I just rented this from Netflix. I thought the film was well-mounted and looked great and the score's main theme was nice, but what a kid's comic book level script. Absurd story that made little sense. I think the stars must have needed the money very badly at the time.
shareLike "Pirates of the Caribbean" has a story that isn't completely absurd?
Anybody who enjoyed PotC (and wasn't a teenage girl sloshing for Johnny Depp) will enjoy "The Long Ships" for similar reasons.
Boy, you ain't kidding, I saw this in the theater when I was a kid and have NEVER, NEVER mind you, grown tired of it. What fun.
shareExaxtly - it's a really enjoyable piece of hockum. A sort of Vikings version of Indiana Jones (but obviously made decades before ROTLA).
People who complain about it's comic book approach don't seem to appreciate that's it's just meant to be a rollicking adventure.
ANd Poor Syndey Potier. You can almost see him say "I just won the Oscar for Lillies Of the Field" and they put in this Crap"...
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