The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957)

Director:

Roger Corman

Writers:

Irving Block (story)
Lawrence L. Goldman (screenplay)

Release Date:

December 1957 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Horror

Tagline:

Fabulous! Spectacular! Terrifying! The raw courage of women without men lost in a fantastic Hell-on-Earth !

Plot:

A group of lonely Viking women build a ship and set off across the sea to locate their missing menfolk...

Plot Keywords:

Viking | Sea | Barbarian | Warrior | Ship

Cast

Abby Dalton	...	Desir
Susan Cabot	...	Enger
Bradford Jackson	...	Vedric (as Brad Jackson)
June Kenney	...	Asmild
Richard Devon	...	Stark
Betsy Jones-Moreland	...	Thyra
Jonathan Haze	...	Ottar
Jay Sayer	...	Senya
Lynette Bernay	...	Dagda (as Lynn Bernay)
Sally Todd	...	Sanda
Gary Conway	...	Jarl
Michael Forest	...	Zarko (as Mike Forrest)
Wilda Taylor	...	Grimolt Dancer

Also Known As:

The Saga of the Viking
The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent
Undersea Monster
Viking Women (UK)
La leggenda vichinga (Italy) [it]
La leyenda de las vikingas y su viaje a las aguas del gran dios serpiente (Venezuela) [es]
Le donne vichinghe e il dio serpente (Italy) [it]

Runtime:

66 min | USA:71 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #18826) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

Filming Locations:

Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Malibu Productions

Goofs:

Factual errors: In the great hall of the building the curtains are held up by metal curtain rings.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Viking Women vs. the Sea Serpent (#4.17)" (1991)

Corman's historical epic....?

A Corman cheapie which follows the fortunes of a tribe of Viking women, as they set sail to find their menfolk who have not returned from an earlier voyage.

Women are all statuesque blondes, apart from the evil one who, in the best film-noir tradition, is brunette.

After setting sail in the flimsiest longship imaginable ( a 20 ft canoe ), the women are pulled into a vortex and terrorised by a giant sea-serpent which causes them to be washed ashore in a strange land. Here they find there menfolk, who had followed a similar path and are now enslaved by a barbarian tribe, the Grimaults and forced to work down their mines.

The men are all bottle-blonde surf-dudes, and after some comings and goings the women manage to free their other halfs, and all manage to escape.

Any film with a title this tongue in cheek, particularly a Corman one, is difficult not to have some affection for. That said 'Viking Women....' is very poor in all departments, with script, performances, narrative all out of the bottom drawer. Not of the standard of other Corman films of the period, such as 'Day the World Ended' which despite limitations did have some recognisable strengths.