The Vikings (1958 film)

The Vikings is a 1958 adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer and filmed in Technicolor. It was produced by and stars Kirk Douglas. It is based on the novel The Viking by Edison Marshall, which in turn is based on material from the sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok and his sons. Other starring roles were taken by Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh and Ernest Borgnine. The film made notable use of natural locations in Norway. It was mostly filmed in Maurangerfjorden and Maurangsnes, captured on film by cinematographer Jack Cardiff although Aellas castle was the real Fort de la Latte in northeast Brittany and also on the location of the Lim Bay Fiord in Croatia.

The King of Northumbria is killed during a Viking raid led by the fearsome Ragnar Ernest Borgnine. Because the king had died childless, his cousin Aella Frank Thring takes the throne. The kings widow, however, is pregnant with what she knows is Ragnars child because he had raped her during that fateful raid, and to protect the infant from her cousininlaws ambitions, she sends him off to Italy. By a twist of fate, the ship is intercepted by the Vikings, who are unaware of the childs kinship, and enslave him.The boy grows into a young man named Erik Tony Curtis. His parentage is finally discovered by Lord Egbert James Donald, a Northumbrian nobleman opposed to Aella. When Aella accuses him of treason, Egbert finds sanctuary with Ragnar in Norway. Egbert recognises the Northumbrian royal swords pommel stone on an amulet around Eriks neck, placed there by Eriks mother when he was a child, but tells no one. ........

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