The Vikings
(Video) 

Based on the novel "The Viking" by Edison Marshall.

Special features: "A Tale of Norway" with director Richard Fleischer [featurette] (28 min.); Theatrical trailer (3 min.).

Photography, Jack Cardiff ; production design, Harper Goff ; editor, Elmo Williams ; music composed and arranged by Mario Nascimbene ; orchestra conducted by Franco Ferrara.

Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh, James Donald, Alexander Knox, Maxine Audley, Frank Thring, Eileen Way, Edric Connor, Dandy Nichols, Per Buckhøj.

Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1958.

It is the Middle Ages, and nothing is more feared in England than Viking warriors. In one of many raids, Viking leader Ragnar kills the English king and forces himself on the Queen. With the King dead, his brother takes the thrown but unknown to anyone but a trusted servant, the Queen is now with child. In order to protect the boy, he is sent away to be raised in safety away from the new King. Twenty years later, the Vikings under are still raiding England and they now have an Englishman, Egbert, making maps of the English coast for them. Ragnar has a son, Einar, a lusty warrior who takes what he wants when he wants it. They also have a slave, Eric, taken prisoner as an infant. Egbert realizes from a necklace Eric wears that he is the son of the Queen and is Einar's half-brother. When they kidnap Morgana, a Welsh beauty and the English King's betrothed, the stage is set for an inevitable clash between the half-brothers and with the reigning English King.

MPAA Rating: Not rated; Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.

DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby digital mono.; widescreen format, preserving the 2.35:1 aspect ratio of the original theatrical exhibition, enhanced for 16:9 televisions.

In English, dubbed French, or dubbed Spanish with optional subtitles in English, French, or Spanish; closed-captioned.