The Long Ships
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Movie Reviews of The Long Ships
Movie Review: History In The Making
Summary: 4 Stars
This film depicts the adventures of two Norsemen who team together to find a fabeled bell of soilid gold. To start off, the two brothers steal the Norse King's funeral ship; kidnap the King's dauhter: then, they battle a mutinous crew; and finally, they face opposition from the resident Moores. The all-star cast that
brings this action-packed adventure: The two brothers are played by Richard Widmark
and Russ Tamblyn; the Moorish opposition is led by Sidney Poiter. Raging battles,
daring escapes, and a little humor thrown in too. A thoroughly enjoyable
description of Viking adventures.
Movie Review: Forget the Mare of Steel and the golden bell...
Summary: 4 Stars
What happened to the auction scene? I remember seeing this movie at an impressionable age and was shocked at what was done to Beba Loncar. The DVD version skips to the harem scene where she is presented "en deshabille", merely implying the humiliation to which she was subjected. Not to rekindle long forgotten prurient interests but I'd prefer the integral version, thank you, and in this, the DVD disappoints.Movie Review: Great Matinee Entertainment
Summary: 4 Stars
I think that this DVD (super transfer)proves a point that there is still a market for this form of entertaiment and without a doubt is far superior to most of the trash we get nowadays in the cinema. Its not that often one can say that this is a Family Movie and a very good one at that. I cant wait for more titles like thisMovie Review: The long Ships
Summary: 4 Stars
Saw this movie when I was 15. It made me a lifelong fan of the late Richard Widmark.Movie Review: Good, but only one black Moor leader and Vikings the heroes?
Summary: 3 Stars
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!
Of course since this is 1963, they cannot have the black man be the hero over whites, so they throw some Vikings into the mix and make them the stars. Of course most of the viewing audience would not be aware of why Poitier is in the lead role of a black man in Spain and why the Vikings are in a position that the black man finds himself in today. During this time period, this is when the black man ruled over parts of Europe (Spain, Portugal, a little of France and some of Italy, now you know why they are dark...) and was on top and almost had had the world. This is the period that creates the turning point in world history and is why Europeans have a love HATE relationship with the black man. That is, they love what blacks create, but hate the fact they created something and not whites. The black man once ruled and educated the European and is responsible for his having been able to break out of Europe and venture off into "new worlds" for the first time (1492) in their history outside of the Roman Empire (Italian, not British, French etc.) or the Greeks, who dealt more with Asia and Africa than Europe.
Aside from the writing out the black man from this chapter in history, even Hollywood at arguably the peak of racism in America knew they had to make at least some of the Moors clear blacks, as opposed to the usual black-faced white actors who play people you can't pin-point. Of course there are the black-faced peoples in the background. I guess they could not find enough black actors. Either that, or they just did not want the audience to get too much of the wrong idea - that the black man ruled parts of Europe.
Now, about this disc. The cover is nice, but this disc is only 4.13GB! I thought that dual layers were the standard? I guess they are doing this to make DVD's even cheaper. I would have bought it on Blu-Ray but it is not out and probably will not be out for some time. The picture looks like they grabbed it from TV or a somewhat high quality tape of some kind. This is not digital from the source or a direct film transfer. Because of that, I give this an almost thumbs down.