

The Long Ships
The Viking adventurers who challenged the seas... and conquered the world!
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $3M
- Box office
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- Language
- Arabic
- ship
- vikings (norsemen)
- bell
- 10th century
- viking ship
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG24 Jun 1964
FranceFR
- TheatricalU22 Apr 1964
GermanyDE
- Theatrical16Columbia-Bavaria25 Mar 1964
- Theatrical12CFC Contact-Film (Wiederaufführung)1 Jan 1982
IrelandIE
- TheatricalPG8 May 1964
PolandPL
- Theatrical181 Jan 1967
SwedenSE
- Theatrical155 Oct 1964
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The Long Ships was released on 25 March 1964.
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CinemaSerf
6/14/2024
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 w…
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