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The Viking
(1928) American
Color : Nine reels / 8394 feet
Directed by R. William Neill (Roy William Neill)
Cast: Donald Crisp [Leif Ericsson], Pauline Starke [Helga], LeRoy Mason [Alwin], Anders Randolph (Anders Randolf) [Eric the Red], Richard Alexander [Siguard], Harry Lewis Woods (Harry Woods) [Egil the Black], Albert MacQuarrie [Kark], Roy Stewart [King Olaf], Torben Meyer [Odd], Claire McDowell [Lady Editha, Alwin’s mother], Julia Swayne Gordon [Thorhild, Leif’s mother]
Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by Jack Cunningham, from the novel The Thrall of Leif the Lucky by Ottilia Adelina Liljencrantz. Cinematography by George Cave. Intertitles by Randolph Bartlett. Edited by Aubrey Scott. / © 29 July 1929 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP553]. Released 2 November 1928. / [?] Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and/or Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format? Technicolor No. 3 two-strip color process. Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film sound system. / This Technicolor production was purchased by Irving Thalberg for MGM release, with a soundtrack added by MGM. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.
Drama: Historical.
Survival Status: Print exists.
Keywords: Color cinematography - Mutinies - Synchronized sound film - Vikings
Listing updated: 12 October 2009.
References: Basten-Technicolor pp. 39-41, 170; Eyles-Missing p. 14; McCaffrey-Guide p. 5; Pitts-Hollywood pp. 282-283; Shipman-Cinema p. 98 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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