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Anders Randolf (standing, left), Julia Swayne Gordon (to his left) and
Pauline Starke (seated, center-right).
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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The Viking
(1928) United States of America
Color : Nine reels / 8394 feet
Directed by R. William Neill (Roy William Neill)
Cast: Donald Crisp [Leif Ericsson], Pauline Starke [Helga Nilsson], Le Roy Mason [Lord Alwin, Earl of Northumbria], Anders Randolph (Anders Randolf) [Eric the Red, Leif’s father], Richard Alexander [Sigurd], Harry Lewis Woods (Harry Woods) [Egil the Black], Albert MacQuarrie [Kark], Roy Stewart [King Olaf], Torben Meyer [Odd, the cowardly mutineer], Claire McDowell [Lady Editha, Alwin’s mother], Julia Swayne Gordon [Thorhild, Leif’s mother]; [?] ? [Kark’s father], [?] ? [Ragnar Oleson], [?] Binunsky Hyman? [the horn blower], [?] ? [Rolf], [?] ? [Einar]
Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Technicolor Production]. / Produced by Herbert T. Kalmus. Screen play (scenario) by Jack Cunningham, from the novel The Thrall of Leif the Lucky by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz (Ottilia Adelina Liljencrantz). Production management by J.T. Reed. Supervising art director, Carl Oscar Borg. Color art director, Natalie Kalmus. Associate artists, Jack Holden, Andre Chotin and Lewis W. Physioc. Settings (set design) by Tec-Art (Tec-Art Studios). Photography (cinematography) by George Cave. Film editor, Aubrey Scotto. Intertitles written by Randolph Bartlett. Presented by Herbert T. Kalmus. / © 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 1.33:1 format? Technicolor No. 3 two-strip color process. Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / This Technicolor production was purchased by Irving Thalberg for MGM release, and released with a soundtrack added by MGM. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.
Drama: Historical.
Survival status: Print exists [35mm Technicolor positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Animals: Horses - Color cinematography - Danes - Dwarves - English - Greeks - Greenland - Mutinies - Norway - Religion: Christianity - Slaves - Synchronized sound film - Vikings
Listing updated: 4 August 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : 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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