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The Long Ships ()

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A vagabond Viking adventurer and a Moor both compete to find "The Mother of All Voices", a legendary golden bell near the Pillars of Hercules.
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Cast

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Rolfe
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Aly Mansuh
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Orm
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Aminah
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Krok
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Sven
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Aziz
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Gerda
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King Harald
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Vahlin
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Rhykka
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Olla
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Auctioneer
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Raschid
Jeanne Moody ...
Ylva
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Milan Bosiljcic-Beli ...
(uncredited)
Zorica Gajdas ...
(uncredited)
Luanshya Greer ...
Harem girl (uncredited)
Dragan Lukic-Omoljac ...
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(uncredited)
Talitha Pol ...
Girl in harem (uncredited)
Charles H. Radilak ...
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Persian Soldier Who Falls On Sword To Prove Loyalty (uncredited)
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Girl in harem (uncredited)
Ljubo Skiljevic ...
(uncredited)
Dragomir Stanojevic ...
(uncredited)

Directed by

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Jack Cardiff

Written by

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Berkely Mather ... (screenplay) and
Beverley Cross ... (screenplay)
 
Frans G. Bengtsson ... (novel "The Long Ships") (as Frans Bengtsson)

Produced by

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Irving Allen ... producer
Denis O'Dell ... associate producer

Music by

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Dusan Radic

Cinematography by

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Christopher Challis ... director of photography

Editing by

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Geoffrey Foot

Production Design by

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Vlastimir Gavrik ... (uncredited)
Zoran Zorcic ... (uncredited)

Art Direction by

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Bill Constable ... (as William Constable)
Vlastimir Gavrik
John Hoesli
Zoran Zorcic
Veljko Despotovic ... (uncredited)
Dragoljub Ivkov ... (uncredited)
Vladislav Lasic ... (uncredited)
Aleksandar Milovic ... (uncredited)
Miodrag Miric ... (uncredited)
Milan Todorovic ... (uncredited)

Costume Design by

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David Ffolkes ... (costumes designed by)
Anthony Mendleson ... (costumes designed by)

Makeup Department

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A.R. Scott ... hairdresser
Neville Smallwood ... makeup artist
Radmila Todorovic ... makeup artist (uncredited)

Production Management

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David W. Orton ... production manager (as David Orton)
Milenko Stankovic ... production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Bluey Hill ... assistant director
Cliff Lyons ... second unit director
Stevan Petrovic ... assistant director
Derek Cracknell ... assistant director (uncredited)
Stevan Petrovic ... second unit director (uncredited)
Michael Reeves ... assistant director (uncredited)
Dennis Robertson ... assistant director (uncredited)
Jess Yates ... second unit director (uncredited)

Art Department

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A. Benzon ... mosaics
Ken Barley ... apprentice plasterer (uncredited)
Fred Bennett ... construction manager (uncredited)
Eddie Fowlie ... property master (uncredited)

Sound Department

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Paddy Cunningham ... sound recordist
Gordon Daniel ... sound editor
Hugh Strain ... sound recordist
George Sanders ... sound maintenance (uncredited)
Vladimir Stankovic ... boom operator (uncredited)

Special Effects by

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Sydney Pearson ... special effects (as Sid Pearson)
Bill Warrington ... special effects
Wally Armitage ... special effects (uncredited)
Brian Gamby ... special effects (uncredited)
Martin Gutteridge ... special effects (uncredited)
Fred Heather ... special effects (uncredited)
Garth Inns ... special effects (uncredited)
Malcolm King ... special effects (uncredited)
Dragomir Stanojevic ... special effects (uncredited)
Jimmy Ward ... special effects (uncredited)

Visual Effects by

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Ivor Beddoes ... matte artist

Stunts

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Peter Brace ... stunts
Terry Richards ... stunts
Ernest Robinson ... stunt coordinator
Ken Buckle ... stunts (uncredited)
Richard Graydon ... stunts (uncredited)
Alf Joint ... stunts (uncredited)
Milan Mitic ... stunts (uncredited)
Slavoljub Plavsic-Zvonce ... stunts (uncredited)
Skender Radotina ... stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department

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Austin Dempster ... camera operator
Skeets Kelly ... second unit cameraman
Raffaele Marino ... electrician (as Raf Marino)
Ray Parslow ... camera operator
John Cardiff ... focus puller (uncredited)
Jack Drew ... chief electrician (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Ron Beck ... wardrobe master
Borka Subaranovic ... wardrobe (uncredited)

Music Department

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Borislav Pascan ... conductor
Geoffrey Foot ... music editor (uncredited)
Muir Mathieson ... conductor (uncredited)

Script and Continuity Department

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Angela Allen ... continuity
Eileen Head ... continuity

Additional Crew

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Maurice Binder ... prologue and main title by
Erik Kjersgaard ... technical adviser (as Erik Kiersgaard)
Paul Maslansky ... assistant to producer
Bob Simmons ... action sequences
Ken Green ... publicity director (uncredited)
Fred Hymns ... production accountant (uncredited)

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Storyline

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Plot Summary

There is a legend about a great bell called "The Mother of Voices," made of pure gold, three times the size of a man, made by monks many years ago... This is the story told in the marketplace by a Viking called Rolfe. This information finds its way to the Islamic ruler Aly Manush, who is obsessed with finding the bell. But Rolfe claims not to know where the bell is, and escapes back to his homeland, to convince his father and brother to give him a ship and crew to replace the one he lost--or to help him steal the Death Ship which belongs to the king--because he does know where the bell is. Written by Gary Dickerson

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Taglines The Greatest Viking Adventure Of Them All! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Dugi brodovi (Yugoslavia, Serbian title)
  • Les Drakkars (France)
  • Els invasors (Spain, Catalan title)
  • Los invasores (Spain)
  • Këmbana e Artë (Albania)
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Runtime
  • 126 min
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Budget $3,000,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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Trivia Sidney Poitier had a miserable experience filming in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. It was April, 1963, and allegedly, the mood was gloom, the locals seemed hostile, and the weather was freezing. Poitier said: ''I have been spending hours on the set, dreaming about tropical climates and little shacks on pink beaches.'' See more »
Goofs The model ship Mansuh is holding early in the film is of a type of galley that wasn't built until the late 17th century in France, some 700 years after the story takes place. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Cinema Komunisto (2010). See more »
Quotes Rolfe: If we ever had children, my lady, what princely liars they would be!
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