The Long Ships Rating: Release Date: 24 June, 2003 Retail Price: $24.95 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Richard Widmark Sidney Poitier Lionel Jeffries Edward Judd Complete Cast (10 total)

The Long Ships Reviews

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The Long Ships Classic
Comedy, mythology, and history all rolled into one great classic movie

Mediocre film based on a great but little read novel
Like most reviewers here I saw this film when I was a kid, and at the time loved it. In fact, I saw it many times and loved it until.... in high school I got around to reading an English translation of the Swedish novel it was very loosely and I mean VERY LOOSELY based on, "The Long Ships" or "Red Orm" by Frans Bengtsson, one of the best selling novels ever printed in Sweden. The book blew me away and anyone else I've met in the last 40 years that ever read it also recalls it as one of the best novels they ever read. For me this film this is an extraordinary example of how a great piece of literature can get mangled almost beyond recognition by Hollywood into a silly but mildly entertaining motion picture.

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