Roman Britain. Opening title:- “This was a land where druid priests held sway over peoples minds and prophesied that one day a woman would wear armour and wield a sword against the Romans. A woman who would be called – The Viking Queen”. On his deathbed, old King Priam names his daughter, Salina, as his successor. She is a peace-loving young woman who tries to keep all sides – Druids and Romans alike – happy, at the same time falling in love with the Roman commander Justinian. But, circumstances soon dictate that she must take sides against the man she loves.
Production Details
A Seven Arts-Hammer Film production presented by Associated British Pathe Limited and released through Warner-Pathe Distributors Limited (UK) and Twentieth Century-Fox (USA)
Copyright MCMlXVl Hammer Film Productions Ltd, – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious, and any ,similarity to the name, character, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional
RCA Sound System
Filmed at Ardmore Studios Ireland, and on location in County Wicklow, Ireland
Technicolor 91 mins
Filming Began: 15th June 1966
UK Release: 26 March 1967
Studio:
Ardmore Studios, Herbert Road, Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland
Location:
Powerscourt Estate, Enniskerry, County Wicklow, Ireland – Waterfall
Loch Tay, County Wicklow, Ireland
Wicklow Gap, County Wicklow, Ireland
Sally Gap, County Wicklow, Ireland
Kilruddery Estate, County Wicklow, Ireland
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Original Poster
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Footnotes
American star Don Murray’s credits include Bus Stop (1956), for which he received an Oscar nomination, Fred Zinnemann’s A Hatfull of Rain (1957), Bachelor Party (1957) and Otto Preminger’s Advise and Consent (1962).
New find Carita did not enjoy the same success as Ursula Andress and Raquel Welch and appears to have vanished without trace after this film.
Despite having significant roles in many films, Adrianne Corri is best known for one of her smaller parts, that of Mrs. Alexander, the wife of the writer Frank Alexander, in Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange (1971). She also played the Gypsy Woman in Hammer’s Vampire Circus (1971)
