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LA REGINA DEI VICHINGHI

(The Viking Queen)

1967, regia di Don Chaffey

Scheda: Nazione: GB - Produzione: Hammer Film Productions Limited, Seven Arts Productions - Distribuzione: Dear Fox, 20th Century Fox, Anchor Bay Entertainment - Soggetto: da un romanzo di John Temple-Smith - Sceneggiatura: Clarke Reynolds - Fotografia: Stephen Dade - Montaggio: Peter Boita - Costumi: John Furniss - Musiche: Gary Hughes - Effetti speciali: Allan Bryce - Formato: Panoramica Color DeLuxe - Durata: 91' (80').

Cast: Don Murray, Carita, Donald Houston, Andrew Keir, Adrienne Corri, Niall MacGinnis, Wilfrid Lawson, Nicola Pagett, Percy Herbert, Patrick Troughton, Sean Caffrey, Denis Shaw, Philip O'Flynn, Brendan Matthews, Gerry Alexander, Patrick Gardiner.

Trama e commenti: mymovies.it - it.movies.yahoo.com - film.tv.it - film-dvd.dvd.it - libreriauniversitaria.it: «Salina, dopo la morte di suo padre, sale al trono del regno di Britannia con la speranza di condurre un'esistenza in pace con i dominatori Romani. Innamorata di Giustiniano, il governatore generale di Roma, Salina teme che il suo secondo in comando, Ottavio, possa esautorarlo per prendere il potere. Costretto a combattere dei ribelli lontano nel territorio della Britannia, Giustiniano parte e lascia Ottavio a governare il territorio il quale inizia subito a condurre una spietata repressione contro le tribù locali. A Salina non rimane che prendere le armi ed affrontare i Romani in campo aperto».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - allmovie.com - entertainment.msn.com - new-video.de - tvguide.com: «Sex and swordplay fill the screen as the ancient British Iceni tribe falls to the glamorous, lightly clad Carita during the long Roman occupation. On his deathbed Lawson, her father, has urged the new queen--whose mother was a Viking--to maintain peace among the warlike British tribes and their foreign conquerors. Carita joins with Murray, the Roman military governor, in this endeavor; their association blossoms into romance. Murray's ambitious second-in-command, Keir, subverts these peaceful intentions by fomenting a rebellion, forcing Murray to lead his legions away to the other side of Hadrian's Wall. With his leader gone, Keir seizes the opportunity to arrest and flog Carita, rape her younger sister, and start an open war between the Romans and the combined forces of the Iceni and the Druids. Murray returns, but too late: Carita has escaped imprisonment by joining the fray, charging the Roman legions with her knife-hubbed chariot. Wounded in battle, she dies in Murray's arms. An interesting, well-photographed attempt to depict the land of the blue-painted troglodytes during a time when few records were kept. The costumes reveal more flesh than might have been wise in the cold, damp climate of the Irish mountains where location scenes were shot. Murray, the lone US national in the cast, is also the only well-known name. Carita, a Finn, made her screen debut here then faded back into obscurity».

Approfondimenti: Movie Review

Conosciuto anche con il titolo: La reine des Vikings; Königin der Wikinger; Vikingler kraliçesi.

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