I saw this with my family as a teenager and it was a fun family movie then and it still is. We went to see it because of Sidney Poitier and Richard Widmark and we were not disappointed. I have seen it pop up on TV occassionally but not enough to suit my taste. If you like action and adventure movies you should get some entertainment out of this. It involves a band of vikings led by Widmark trying to find a legendary gold bell. Poitier captures them trying to steal the bell from his kingdom and their battle then and escape later has some decent action. This is definitely no brainer family entertainment, and not for snobs that bash anything that doesn't have a 120+ million dollar FX budget or that makes the average person wretch from the overacted drama. When it comes out on DVD I plan to buy it.
Review of The Long Ships
