I vichinghi

Titolo originale: The Vikings
Regia: Richard Fleischer |
Anno: 1958
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Avventura Storia Azione
Tag: epic | based on novel or book | scandinavia | vikings (norsemen) | norway | unknown father | slave | swashbuckler | one eyed man | sailing ship | one armed man | technicolor | british monarchy | northumberland | wolves | 9th century | falconry | half-brothers | abducted fiancée |
Cast: Kirk Douglas | Tony Curtis | Ernest Borgnine | Janet Leigh | James Donald | Alexander Knox | Maxine Audley | Frank Thring | Eileen Way | Edric Connor | Dandy Nichols | Per Buckhøj | Almut Berg | Peter Capell | Bill Cummings | Kelly Curtis | Peter Douglas | Georges Guéret | Rico López | Marco Perrin | Paul Préboist | Orson Welles |

Einar e Eric sono entrambi figli del re Ragnar, ma, poiché Eric è un figlio illegittimo, il destino li ha separati in tenera età, così da farli crescere senza sapere nulla l'uno dell'altro. Einar, cresciuto con suo padre, re dei Vichinghi, è diventato un grande guerriero e si è distinto in molte occasioni. Eric invece, ha alle spalle un passato da schiavo da cui è riuscito a liberarsi con molta fatica. Quando il trono di Northumbria, in Bretagna, diviene vacante, si scatena tra i vari pretendenti al titolo una lotta senza quartiere che fa trovare uno contro l'altro i due fratelli, divisi anche dall'amore per la bella principessa Morgana...

Errori

The chapel at the castle features Byzantine style renderings of Jesus and other Christian figures. I [...] D
Father Godwin wears a tunic that identifies him as a Franciscan friar; yet, St. Francis lived more t [...] D
Viking women did not shave their underarms, nor wear strapless bustiers. D
Towards the end, when Einar climbs the tower to get to Morgana. One of the metal 'flowers' on the ba [...] D
As the Vikings reach England they unload a number of large and seemingly heavy wheels. One of the po [...] D
When Tony Curtis pulls the dagger out after stabbing Einar there is no blood on it, but there is in [...] D
Vikings did not wear horned helmets. D
When Einar climbs the tower towards the end, the blood on the end of his sword appears and disappear [...] D
When Einar breaks the stained glass window of the chapel the configuration of the glass is different [...] D
In the early scene where the viking ship is first returning to the village a shot from the front of [...] D
Near the end of the film where Einar goes up the wall to the chapel window, as he nears the window, [...] D
Morgana travels to Aella's court in a boat that resembles a Portuguese caravel, or a Genoan "caracca [...] D
When Einar gets into the rowboat to take Morgana, he did not untie the boat. A rope can clearly be s [...] D
When the three Viking ships depart Norway to invade England, Ragnar's sunken ship is among them. Whe [...] D
As Einar climbs the second drawbridge, an English soldier drops rocks at him. The soldier is hit by [...] D
When Tony Curtis is about to face down Aella, he drives his sword into a Briton, which comes back up [...] D
When Odin's wind rises to drive the tide out, thus saving Eric's life, The scene switched from the t [...] D
As Einar returns home after kidnapping Morgana, the mic is visible in the lower left corner of the s [...] D
Kitala explains that the magnetised metal fish will always point North. However, in the sailing sequ [...] D
When Einar (Kirk Douglas) boards the ship he has captured he lifts up Morgana's (Janet Leigh) maidse [...] D
When Ragnar and Einar are celebrating the capture of Morgana, Ragnar is heard to say 'What a son'. T [...] D
During the attack on the castle some vikings run/slide down an embankment to fight a line of soldier [...] D
A Norman-style stone castle is featured in England, though the film is set before the Norman Conques [...] D
Helga's name would be "Helga Nilsdatter,", not " Helga Nilsson". D
When Einar throws his head back and shouts "Odin" at the end, you can see his modern gold crowns on [...] D
When Erik rescues Morgana and her maid they get into a rowboat with the two men near the bow and the [...] D
The Northumbrian flag, a complex banner flying from the tops of Aella's castle towers, would not hav [...] D