The Vikings 1958 123movies

Watch: The Vikings 1958 123movies, Full Movie Online – Einar and Eric are two Viking half-brothers. The former is a great warrior whilst the other is an ex-slave, but neither knows the true identity of the other. When the throne of Northumbria in Britain becomes free for the taking, the two brothers compete against one another for the prize, but they have very different motives – both involving the princess Morgana, however..
Plot: Einar, brutal son of Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with Eric, a wily slave, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden.
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	7.0/10 Votes: 14,593
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Reviews:

My kingdom for a Norse
Big budget, starry-cast, historical, make that almost pre-historical, action movie where a one-eyed Kirk Douglas plays a rumbustious (that’s putting it mildly) Viking prince and his unwitting half-brother Tony Curtis (the offspring of Douglas’s dad, King Ragnar’s, rape of the British queen on a previous raid, years before) a soon-to-be one-handed British slave who are both vying for the love of Welsh princess Janet Leigh, whilst Ernest Borgnine as Ragnar eggs his boy on from the sidelines. There’s also a minor sub-plot about the Vikings crossing the water to remove from power the new, cruel, usurping English king who’s tricked Curtis’s Eric out of his birthright to be king himself and who to seal the deal just happens to get himself betrothed to the young Leigh.

The movie is beautifully shot in natural light in and around actual Norwegian fjords which look superb in big-screen colour and the recreation of the Viking long-boats by the film’s carpenters is also remarkable, but if I’m starting a review by praising the backgrounds, it probably means there’s a want in the foreground, and so it proves.

Douglas’s boorish Einar looks old enough to be Eric’s half-father and his usually drunken behaviour hardly endears him to the viewer. At one point he is determined to rape Leigh’s Princess Morgana and is only stopped by Curtis’s timely intervention. Curtis’s character, unusually, is a man of few words but even with a beard, the young Tony doesn’t completely convince playing it strong and silent. The object of their affections, Janet Leigh, appears able to bewitch these two the minute they clap eyes on her, which I suppose is fair enough as she does look lovely in her robes, but she’s not really required to do much between simpering and occasionally seething.

There are some odd scenes of I presume authentic old Viking customs, if you exclude feasting, drinking and womanising on a Henry VIII scale that is, like “walking the oars” and strangest of all the method of proving a wife’s infidelity which involves putting her in a set of stocks, then nailing up her outstretched hair plaits and inviting her allegedly cuckolded husband to free her by throwing axes to sever her plaits. Talk about being saved by a hair’s breadth. Elswhere there’s no stinting on the crowd scenes and the battle scenes are reasonably exciting if not wholly convincing.

This film was reasonably entertaining as a spectacle but for me was let down by the hackneyed plotting, use of extreme coincidence and shallow characterisation. Douglas and Curtis of course would get back into tunics and sandals a few years later, but this time with a better tale to tell and under a master director in Stanley Kubrick. To paraphrase a famous line from that movie however, this film here isn’t “Spartacus”.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 56 min (116 min)
Budget 5000000
Revenue 20311
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Action, Adventure, History
Director Richard Fleischer
Writer Calder Willingham, Dale Wasserman, Edison Marshall
Actors Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine
Country United States
Awards 2 wins & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor (color by) (as Technicolor®)
Film Length 3,135 m
Negative Format 35 mm (horizontal)
Cinematographic Process Technirama (as Technirama®)
Printed Film Format 35 mm