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* DoingItForTheArt: Creator/KirkDouglas took no salary for the film in return for 60% of the profits, and was estimated to have earned $3 million from the film.
* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/KirkDouglas offered all the male members of the cast a prize for the best beard, to be grown before arriving on location. All turned up with huge beards, only to find Douglas clean-shaven.
* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/KirkDouglas offered all the male members of the cast a prize for the best beard, to be grown before arriving on location. All turned up with huge beards, only to find Douglas clean-shaven.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As the special feature on the DVD shows, before deciding on Eric for the renaming of Ogier the Dane, the character would have been called Oric. Similarly, Creator/KirkDouglas' character would have been called Hastings instead of Einar.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As the special feature on the DVD shows, before deciding on Eric for the renaming of Ogier the Dane, the character would have been called Oric. Similarly, Creator/KirkDouglas' character would have been called Hastings instead of Einar.Einar, of course it is ambiguous if this is truly an AdaptationalNameChange or merely a mispelling of the character's original name since even Edison Marshall once mispelled it as such.
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* ProductionPosse: [[ThoseTwoActors Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis]] played in ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' two years later. Bryna Productions (Kirk Douglas' company) produced both ''The Vikings'' and ''Spartacus''.
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* ProductionPosse: [[ThoseTwoActors Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis]] played in ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' two years later. Bryna Productions (Kirk Douglas' (Kirk's company) produced both ''The Vikings'' and ''Spartacus''.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: The castle of La Roche Goyon, better known as Fort la Latte, which is situated in Brittany, France, was used as Aella's Northumbrian castle.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: The castle of La Roche Goyon, better known as Fort la Latte, which is situated in Brittany, France, UsefulNotes/{{France}}, was used as Aella's Northumbrian castle.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: The castle of La Roche Goyon, better known as Fort la Latte, which is situated in Brittany, France, was used as Aella's Northumbrian castle.
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** Creator/KirkDouglas is one month ''older'' [[PlayingGertrude than]] Creator/ErnestBorgnine and plays the latter's son. Furthermore the character of Hasting (Renamed Einar in the film) in the Edison Marshall novel, is stated to be two years older than Ogier (Eric in the film).
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** Creator/KirkDouglas is one ''one month ''older'' older'' [[PlayingGertrude than]] Creator/ErnestBorgnine and plays the latter's son. Borgnine sporting a beard and relatively long hair and Douglas being clean-shaven and short-haired helped sell the difference.
** Furthermore the character of Hasting(Renamed Einar (renamed "Einar" in the film) in the Edison Marshall novel, is stated to be two years older than Ogier (Eric (renamed "Eric" in the film).
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** A very special case: Creator/KirkDouglas is one month ''older'' [[PlayingGertrude than]] Creator/ErnestBorgnine and plays the latter's son. Furthermore the character of Hasting (Renamed Einar in the film) in the Edison Marshall novel, is stated to be two years older than Ogier (Eric in the film).
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** A very special case: Creator/KirkDouglas is one month ''older'' [[PlayingGertrude than]] Creator/ErnestBorgnine and plays the latter's son. Furthermore the character of Hasting (Renamed Einar in the film) in the Edison Marshall novel, is stated to be two years older than Ogier (Eric in the film).
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As the special feature on the DVD will show, before deciding on Eric for the renaming of Ogier the Dane, the character would have been called Oric. Similarly, Creator/KirkDouglas' character would have been called Hastings instead of Einar.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As the special feature on the DVD will show, shows, before deciding on Eric for the renaming of Ogier the Dane, the character would have been called Oric. Similarly, Creator/KirkDouglas' character would have been called Hastings instead of Einar.
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** In the book, Egbert was thirty when Ogier was twenty. In the film he is played by the forty-one year old James Donald.
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** In the book, Morgana is stated to be fifteen, five years younger the Ogier/Eric when they first meet. Janet Leigh was thirty-one.
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** A very special case: Creator/KirkDouglas is one month ''older'' [[PlayingGertrude than]] Creator/ErnestBorgnine and plays the latter's son. Furthermore the character of Hasting (Renamed Einar in the film) in the Edison Marshall novel, is stated to be closer to two years older than Ogier (Eric in the film) in age.film).
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* DawsonCasting: A very special case: Creator/KirkDouglas is one month ''older'' [[PlayingGertrude than]] Creator/ErnestBorgnine and plays the latter's son. Furthermore the character of Hasting (Renamed Einar in the film) in the Edison Marshall novel, is stated to be closer to Ogier (Eric in the film) in age.
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* DawsonCasting: A DawsonCasting:
**A very special case: Creator/KirkDouglas is one month ''older'' [[PlayingGertrude than]] Creator/ErnestBorgnine and plays the latter's son. Furthermore the character of Hasting (Renamed Einar in the film) in the Edison Marshall novel, is stated to be closer to Ogier (Eric in the film) in age.
**A very special case: Creator/KirkDouglas is one month ''older'' [[PlayingGertrude than]] Creator/ErnestBorgnine and plays the latter's son. Furthermore the character of Hasting (Renamed Einar in the film) in the Edison Marshall novel, is stated to be closer to Ogier (Eric in the film) in age.
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* DawsonCasting: A very special case: Creator/KirkDouglas is one month ''older'' [[PlayingGertrude than]] Creator/ErnestBorgnine and plays the latter's son. Furthermore the character of Hasting (Renamed Einar in the film) in the Edison Marshall novel, is stated to be closer to Ogier (Eric in the film) in age.
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** Eric is supposed to be 20. Creator/TonyCurtis was 33 at the time.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As the special feature on the DVD will show, before deciding on Eric for the renaming of Ogier the Dane, the character would have been called Oric. Similarly, Creator/KirkDouglas' character would have been called Hastings instead of Einar.Einar.
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* DawsonCasting: A very special case: Creator/KirkDouglas is one month ''older'' [[PlayingGertrude than Ernest Borgnine]] than]] Creator/ErnestBorgnine and plays the latter's son.
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* DawsonCasting: A very special case: Creator/KirkDouglas is one month older ''older'' [[PlayingGertrude than Ernest Borgnine]] and plays the latter's son.
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* ProductionPosse: [[ThoseTwoActors Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis]] appeared in ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' two years later. Bryna Productions (Kirk Douglas' company) produced both ''The Vikings'' and ''Spartacus''.
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* ProductionPosse: [[ThoseTwoActors Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis]] appeared played in ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' two years later. Bryna Productions (Kirk Douglas' company) produced both ''The Vikings'' and ''Spartacus''.
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* ProductionPosse: Creator/KirkDouglas [[ThoseTwoActors Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis also Curtis]] appeared in ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' two years later. Bryna Productions (Kirk Douglas' company) produced both ''The Vikings'' and ''Spartacus''.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As the special feature on the DVD will show, before deciding on Eric for the renaming of Ogier the Dane, the character would have been called Oric. Similarly, Kirk Douglas' Creator/KirkDouglas' character would have been called Hastings instead of Einar.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As the special feature on the DVD will show, before deciding on Eric for the renaming of Ogier the Dane, the character would have been called Oric. Similarly Hasting Similarly, Kirk Douglas' character would have been called Hastings instead of Einar.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As the special feature on the DVD will show, before deciding on Erik Eric for the renaming of Ogier the Dane, the character would have been called Oric. Similarly Hasting would have been called Hastings instead of Einar.
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* ProductionPosse: Creator/KirkDouglas, Tony Curtis and Frank Thring also appeared in ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' two years later. Bryna Productions (Kirk Douglas' company) produced both ''The Vikings'' and ''Spartacus''.
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* ProductionPosse: Creator/KirkDouglas, Creator/KirkDouglas and Tony Curtis and Frank Thring also appeared in ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' two years later. Bryna Productions (Kirk Douglas' company) produced both ''The Vikings'' and ''Spartacus''.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As the special feature on the DVD will show, before deciding on Eric Erik for the renaming of Ogier the Dane, the character would have been called Oric. Similarly Hasting would have been called Hastings instead of Einar.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As the special feature on the dvd DVD will show, before deciding on Eric for the renaming of Ogier the Dane, the character would have been called Oric. Similarly Hasting would have been called Hastings instead of Einar.
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* ProductionPosse: Creator/KirkDouglas, Tony Curtis and Frank Thring also appeared in Film/{{Spartacus}} ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' two years later. Bryna Productions (Kirk Douglas' company) produced both ''The Vikings'' and ''Spartacus''.
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* DawsonCasting: A very special case: Kirk Douglas is one month older [[PlayingGertrude than Ernest Borgnine]] and plays the latter's son.
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* ThrowItIn: During the VikingFuneral scene, a single archer fires a flaming arrow, which hits the mast nearly dead center, followed by others. This was an accident, as one of the archers hired for the scene fired before he was supposed to. The director decided to keep it when he saw how good it looked.
** Erik is supposed to be 20. Tony Curtis was 33 at the time.
* ThrowItIn: During the VikingFuneral scene, a single archer fires a flaming arrow, which hits the mast nearly dead center, followed by others. This was an accident, as one of the archers hired for the scene fired before he was supposed to. The director decided to keep it when he saw how good it looked.
