Vichinghi e popoli del Nord

I VICHINGHI

(The Viking)

1928, regia di Roy William Neill

Scheda: Nazione: USA - Produzione: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation - Distribuzione: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Soggetto: dal romanzo The Thrall of Leif the Lucky di Ottilie A. Liljencrantz - Sceneggiatura: Jack Cunningham - Fotografia: George Cave - Montaggio: Aubrey Scotto - Art Direction: Carl Oscar Borg - Formato: Color, muto, con effetti sonori - Durata: 90'.

Cast: Pauline Starke, Donald Crisp, LeRoy Mason, Anders Randolf, Richard Alexander, Harry Woods, Albert MacQuarrie, Roy Stewart, Torben Meyer, Claire McDowell, Julia Swayne Gordon, Francis McDonald.

Trama e commenti: cinematografo.it - film.virgilio.it - comingsoon.it - it.movies.yahoo.com - teramonews.com: «...Basato sulla leggenda concernente i Vichinghi che raggiungono l’America attraverso il mare, fu considerato all’epoca il miglior risultato fino allora raggiunto dal Technicolor bicromatico».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - silentera.com - en.wikipedia.org - classicflix.com - sover.net - allmovie.com: «The Technicolor "spectacular" The Viking was loosely based on the exploits of Norwegian explorer Leif Ericsson. Using O. A. Liljencrantz' highly fanciful novel Leif the Lucky as its guide, the film weaves a delightfully inaccurate account of Ericsson's bold journey from Scandinavia to the coast of America. Sporting a Snub Pollard mustache, Donald Crisp stars as Ericsson, while the love interest was left in the hands of Pauline Starke. The villainy was handled by Anders Randolf, cast as Ericsson's treacherous first mate. Highlights include the Vikings' attack on England, with raping and pillaging aplenty; a mutiny fomented by the villain, which is thwarted through sheer force of will by Ericsson; and the Viking captain's sudden conversion to Christianity. Although the improved Technicolor process was stunning and the production values first-rate, The Viking was an expensive flop -- precisely the sort of picture MGM didn't need during the chaotic switchover to talkies» (Hal Erickson).

Conosciuto anche con i titoli: Les Vikings; Die Wikinger; Die Teufel der Nordsee.

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