The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957) on Netflix
NR19571h 6mActionAdventureFantasy
Desir leads the women of Stannjold to sea to find their missing men. A giant, dragon-like sea serpent destroys their ship, and the tyrant Stark takes them captive.
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In Stannjold, the men have sailed away and have not come back. Desir leads the Viking women of the settlement to build a ship of their own and cross the sea in search of them. A giant, dragon-like sea serpent destroys their vessel, and they wash ashore in the land of the Grimaults. There the barbarian Grimaults take the women captive, and they fall into the hands of Stark, the ruthless tyrant who rules the land and whose people worship the sea serpent that wrecked their ship.
Cast
- Jay Sayeras Senya
- Bradford Jacksonas Vedric
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957)
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- On the first day of location shooting at Paradise Cove, Kipp Hamilton, whom Roger Corman had cast as the lead, held out for more money, so he fired her and promoted the second lead, Abby Dalton; Dalton's sister, Shirley Wasden, took over Dalton's old part.
- Roger Corman said that by the time he came to shoot the special effects he had "realized I had been had": effects men Irving Block and Jack Rabin had promised what they could not deliver, and as a result he stopped accepting oral proposals and insisted they be written.
- Actor Jay Sayer said filming was extremely hazardous because of the low budget and the scenes involving boats and horses: Shirley Wasden was hurt falling off a horse and was replaced by June Kenny, and Richard Devon hurt his knee and almost drowned in the water.
- The film is noted for racial insensitivity and historical distortion: it uses "brownface", white actors in dark makeup, to portray the Grimaults as a primitive and cruel tribe.
- It was the first of five movies Jay Sayer made for Roger Corman, and though Sayer was 24, his part was written for a 15-year-old; the role had been going to an actor called Robin, who was unavailable.
- Corman wrote in his memoirs that the ten-day shooting schedule was far too short considering the nature of the story, and at Iverson's Ranch he made seventy-seven set-ups a day, his record.
