The Long Ships

The Long Ships

1964-04-22 • 2h 6m • PG •
Adventure Drama
6.1
User Score
57 votes

"The Viking adventurers who challenged the seas... and conquered the world!"

Overview

Moorish ruler El Mansuh is determined to locate a massive bell made of gold known as the "Mother of Voices." Viking explorer Rolfe also becomes intent on finding the mythical treasure, and sails with his crew from Scandinavia to Africa to track it down. Reluctantly working together, El Mansuh and Rolfe, along with their men, embark on a quest for the prized object, but only one leader will be able to claim the bell as his own — if it even exists at all.

Jack Cardiff

Director

Berkely Mather

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Movie Details

Status

Released

Original Language

en

Budget

$3,000,000

Revenue

$N/A

Runtime

2h 6m

Release Date

1964-04-22

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2024-06-14T18:16:52.245Z

Sidney Poitier just about carries his role off, as a Moorish prince obsessed with a mythical great golden bell ("The Mother of All Voices") - reputedly made by monks many years ago. The rest of the cast, however, are fish out of water - Richard Widmark and Russ Tamblyn are not at all plausible as Viking raiders/explorers and the ebbs and flows of the storyline and the pretty verbose dialogue stretch the imagination well beyond the point when it stops being fun and starts being dull. Oskar Homolka gets up to some mischief as the only potentially realistic Viking "Krok" but then Lionel Jeffries and Gordon Jackson show up and it is laughable again. The film does have a good, lavish, look about it and the attention to detail (costumes etc.) are suitably sumptuous but it is way too long and wastes a good adventure story.