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Historically, ‘The Vikings’ is largely nonsensical, from its title sequence misapprhension of the centuries-later Bayeux Tapestry to its hash of the succession to the throne of Northumberland. But this film is big suitable fun! – a friendly swashbuckler with a sound dwelling, breathtaking art direction, costuming, sets, & cinemaphotography, & solid acting & direction.

Kirk Douglas gives a menacing yet humane portrayal of the Viking prince Einar whose falcon-disfigured milky contemplate inspires apprehension & loathing. Tony Curtis is, as far as looks go, perhaps a bit miscast but his energetic, seething performance amply redeems his presence. Ernest Borginine’s Ragnar is unbelievable – and one should preserve in mind that Borgnine gave Ragnar life long before this sort of Borgnine role later turned him into a caricature of himself; Ragnar gives the film terrific heart & vitality. Janet Leigh is objective…blooming, despite the script’s relegation of her female lead role into what is chiefly a state blueprint to motivate the action scenes. James Donald succeeds at fleshing out his character, but some of his lines are the only clichés in the script & yet he manages to rise above them with his careful elocution. And the ever-malevolent, narrow-eyed Frank Thring (Pontius Pilate in ‘Ben-Hur’, & a trudge in ‘Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome’) does yeoman service as the conniving, spineless pretender to the throne. Alexander Knox’s cramped role as the priest isn’t great dramatically, but it’s pivotal in the site development, & his diction is at its dilapidated excellence. Also memorable is the rune-reading Viking woman saga-teller whose moonlit face & sepulchral sing in the tidal crab-nibbling scene give the situation & its Norsemen their spiritual anchor.

The DVD’s special features are fascinating, informative, & delightful.

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The supporting cast of Norwegian unknowns, all of them hulking & sweaty & masculine & lusty, lends a muscular depth to the action sequences & even, suprisingly, to the dramatic ones. Norwegian fjords & their ravishing waters & towering precipices provide a majestic setting for the action. And the dénouement at the English castle is one of the finest mediaeval assault & swordplay sequences on film, rarely rivalled, as for example, by those in the Charlton Heston film ‘The Warlord’.

Most of all, who can forget the long ships? Painstakingly recreated from the best archaelogical evidence available at the time of filming, these rakish craft are in themselves stars of ‘The Vikings’ & they give expansive evidence to why the Norsemen dominated the seas. The ‘walking of the oars’ sequence is not only current, but it’s one of the most toothsome bits of all of cinema’s swashbucklers.

‘The Vikings’ isn’t history, but it clear is top-shelf entertainment chock beefy of style & panache. Kids & grown-ups will all devour its scenic majesty & full-blooded characerizations.

Ah, a personal wish fulfilled is the re-issuing of this film onto the DVD format. Although I have long had the older VHS version of this classic fifties romantic sword and sorcery trendsetter, I was recently amused to catch it now listed in the DVD catalogue. Odin be praised! This was a formative film in my childhood, a monstrously approved box office hit that had all of us pre-adolescents involving ourselves for months clashing in attend yards using make-shift stick swords and purloined garbage-can covers for shields as we fought out our absorb imagined action sequences. Indeed, everything about this film is aesthetic and appealing; the wonderfully photographed sequences along the fjords, the jaunty and majestic music, and the quite authentic long ships and settings.

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The cast adds to the fun with a star-packed line-up. Kirk Douglas looks appropriately Nordic (spruce trick for the son of Russian Jewish immigrants), and more than acts out the share of the Viking prince, Einar, the eldest son and heir to the barbarian legacy of his outrageously naughty father, Ragnar, played masterfully by a full-bearded Ernest Borgnine. Tony Curtis adds a limited blue-eyed soul to the cast as the star-crossed illegitimate heir to the English throne, and the quite attractive Janet Leigh (who at the time was Mrs. Tony Curtis) is the prized after English princess both the male principals have the bustle to merge with. The scenes inside the Viking lodges are hilarious; the sequences in which a drunken Douglas has to successfully slit off a lover’s braids from twenty yards with a battle axe without decapitating the lady in quiz to indicate she wasn’t unfaithful is spell-binding to experience. Terrific vicarious excitement for all of us overgrown kids in the audience.

The bottom line is that although none of it makes a whole lot of sense, unprejudiced remember; we’re talking serious action-adventure here! It is deliciously fascinating fun and gives bulky disclosure of all the rowdy Viking boys having a rousing apt time raiding, raping and pillaging, robbing and sinking other ships and finally storming a castle. And we regain ourselves going along for the slip. Why not? The cinematography is satisfactory, as is the musical procure. Although not terribly legal historically, the film does give us an curious examine at extinct lifestyles in terms of different cultures cohabiting not so peacefully in the north Atlantic long ago, circa the fourteenth century or so. It is a enormous diagram to utilize a couple of hours being entertained by some proper Hollywood masters of the genre. Luxuriate In!