Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304329009
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6304329008
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishUnknown
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: February 11, 1997
Running Time: 126 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: June 24, 1964

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
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

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: - The Long Ships
A very good motion picture with Sidney Poitier and Richard Widmark in a very good dramatic movie.

Rating: - Good, but only one black Moor leader and Vikings the heroes?
This film is good for me for one reason and one reason only - it is Hollywood once again showing that the Moors were black even if the Aryan Nations Spanish/Portuguese in the diaspora want to say otherwise. It is a good adventure film and a Poitier film that even Poitier lovers hardly heard of. It is good that they show the clearly black Moor (although he could not have kinky hair), but Poitier is the only clearly black one there - the rest are slaves! His wife is Italian!

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Rating: - a whale of a sail
If you like spartacus,troy,gladiators,ben hur,300,the seven voyages of sinbad or hercules whose strenth and courage demed him a mighty hero. Then you'll throughly enjoy this tale of action,intrigue,strenth,galentry,courage that would earn them glory as well as a overwhelming victory. That kind of overwhelming feeling that after watching it as a kid years later eagerly makes you want to see it again. I'm sure even roger iber would enjoy this epic tale. Enjoy this as well various other adventures as well ... Read More

Rating: - Aging
As a kid I loved this movie. Seeing it now as an adult it is not as much fun. Maybe I'm spoiled by todays special effects which can make anything look the correct period without resorting to cheesy props and make battles look so real. I also realized that the acting wasn't so great either. Still it is fun enough to watch. If you like films like 300 Spartans, Genghis Khan and The Vikings, then this is along the same line. A better Viking/Moor movie is the 13th Warrior.

Rating: - Not Until Star Wars
I loved this movie as a child. Even as a young boy I realized this was a fun, tongue-in-cheek adventure film... closer to a fairy tale than to a realistic serious yarn. I loved it.

Over the years there weren't many films of this type produced. It wasn't until a decade and a half later when Star Wars hit the big screen that I got to see another variation of the elements which make the Long Ships great. While critics missed the point of Star Wars and compared it to 2001: A Space Odyssey, I could ... Read More