10/14/09

The Vikings

This is another Kirk Douglas film, made in the late 1950s, that established his bona fides as a major action film star.

While not a great film, the screenplay does give a decent sense of what it must have seemed like to Medieval European folk, beset by Huns, then Vikings, and then Mongol conquerors, after the fall of the Roman Empire.

Here is a sample of the film: