Starring Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot, Brad Jackson, June Kenney, Richard Devon
Directed by Roger Corman
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
After their men don't return from a voyage, a tribe of Viking women build a ship and head after them, finding the men have been captured by a band of savages after a battle with a sea serpent.
Although the story's pretty thin, there's still elements to enjoy in another cheap adventure from Corman, with Dalton a strong and compelling female lead. The other ladies in the cast unfortunately don't have much to do, other than Cabot's duplicitous Enger, who'd be even more interesting if she didn't have to have a change of heart in the last act. Devon and the other men playing savages pitted against the Vikings are pretty pale villains, and rather surprisingly, Jackson, cast as the leader of the Vikings, comes off pretty bland, with Jonathan Haze's Ottar much more daring and heroic in comparison. Yet Albert Glasser's score adds much needed punch and Nordic flavor to the narrative, and the sea serpent looks pretty decent, when we get to see something of it. It's shoestring filmmaking from Corman, but he did it better than anyone.
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