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Kirk Douglas as Einar holds Janet Leigh as Morgana in an intense scene from the film The Vikings, with a stone wall and rugged landscape in the background.
The Vikings Kirk Douglas and Janet Leigh in The Vikings (1958), directed by Richard Fleischer.

The Vikings

film by Fleischer [1958]
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The Vikings, American adventure film, released in 1958, that was based on the novel The Viking by Edison Marshall. It was noted for its efforts to be an authentic portrayal of Viking life. (Read Martin Scorseseā€™s Britannica essay on film preservation.) The story was filmed primarily on location in Norway and Brittany, France, and tracks the lives of two Viking half brothers, Einar (played by Kirk Douglas) and Eric (Tony Curtis), who do not know...

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