The Long Ships

(1963) PG 1.10PM, BBC2

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Viking and Moorish epics were very much in vogue. Here’s a rather kitsch mash-up between the two, directed by the great Jack Cardiff. Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier star as Norseman and Moorish king fighting over a golden bell that may or may not be real. REGIONAL VARIATIONS