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The Long Ships
(1963) PG
1.10PM, BBC2
Six years after Richard Fleischer’s fabulous The Vikings, here’s another Norse-flavoured romp, directed by Jack Cardiff (cinematographer on the earlier epic). Sidney Poitier (above) plays a Moorish king searching for a mythic bell, who enlists the help of Richard Widmark’s Norseman.