The Long Ships (1963)

The Long Ships (1963). A Viking epic starring Poitier as a Moorish chieftain and Widmark as a Viking adventurer who butt heads during a search for the golden bell of St. James, cast from gold looted from Saracens by Crusaders. The adventurer finds love and is captured by a Moorish sheik.

Directed by Jack Cardiff
Produced by Irving Allen
Screenplay by Beverley Cross, Berkely Mather
Based on The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
Starring Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn, Rosanna Schiaffino, Oskar Homolka, Edward Judd, Lionel Jeffries, Beba Lončar, Clifford Evans, Gordon Jackson, Colin Blakely, David Lodge, Henry Oscar, Paul Stassino, Jeanne Moody, Leonard Rossiter