The film was a hit in the US and overseas, earning $6.2 million in the US and Canada[3] (from a gross of $15 million[7]) and $7 million overseas,[4] including being the 3rd most popular film at the British box office in 1958.[8] Kirk Douglas took no salary for the film in return for 60% of the profits, and was estimated to have earned $3 million from the film.[4]
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote, "The sight of those sleek Viking barges sweeping across the slate gray seas, loaded with bearded, brawny oarsmen, is something exciting to see, particularly in the wide-screen and color that are used very well in this film." However, Crowther was disappointed "that it follows a frank commercial format without any evident attempt to break new ground. Given the story of the Norsemen and the majestic adventures they surely had in carrying their explorations and colonizing the empty northern seas, it does seem that something more heroic and impressive could have been conceived than this copy of a Western, with standard varmints dressed up in shaggy skins."[9] Variety called it "spectacular, rousing and colorful," adding, "Douglas, doing a bangup, free-wheeling job as the ferocious and disfigured Viking fighter, fits the part splendidly."[10] Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "As drama and in emotional content the picture is so elementary, so exaggerated, that it can hardly be taken seriously by the discriminating cinemagoer. A kind of 'Prince Valiant' without the prince, it is filled with pell-mell action that the adult eye will follow with a mixture of amusement and disbelief." Scheuer als
Cast
Kirk Douglas as Einar
Tony Curtis as Eric
Ernest Borgnine as Ragnar Lodbrok
Janet Leigh as Morgana
James Donald as Egbert
Alexander Knox as Father Godwin
Maxine Audley as Enid
Frank Thring as Aella of Northumbria
Eile
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