317 - VIKING WOMEN AND THE SEA SERPENT
(release; 1957; NR; 70m)

a.k.a. THE SAGA OF THE VIKING WOMEN AND THEIR VOYAGE TO THE WATERS OF THE GREAT SEA SERPENT
(working title preferred by Corman)
a.k.a. VIKING WOMEN (England)
a.k.a. UNDERSEA MONSTER
a.k.a. THE SAGA OF THE VIKING

Shown with Short:
317S-The Home Economics Story

Ad: "The Raw Courage of Women Without Men Lost in a Fantastic Hell-on-Earth!"

Ad: "Fabulous! Terrifying!"

Plot: Viking women set sail to rescue their men enslaved by Grimault barbarians, but must get by a sea monster first.

Exec: Samuel Z. Arkoff and James H. Nicholson
(both/*309-The Amazing Colossal Man; 311-It Conquered the World; 313-Earth Vs. the Spider; 315-Teenage Caveman; 319-War of the Colossal Beast; 701-Night of the Blood Beast; 806-The Undead;
807-Terror from the Year 5,000; 808-The She-Creature;
809-I Was A Teenage Werewolf; 912-The Screaming Skull;
H01-The Day the World Ended)
Prod/Dir: Roger Corman (*311/315/806/H01;
503-Swamp Diamonds; 511-Gunslinger; exec/701;
406-Attack of the Giant Leeches; 618-High School Big Shot)
Scr: Lawrence Louis Goldman (Kronos)
Sto: Irving A. Block (Forbidden Planet; Kronos)
Cin: Monroe P. Askins (420-The Human Duplicators; Sorority Girls)
Ed: Ronald Sinclair
(309/319/503/808/H01; 313-Earth Vs. The Spider)
SFX: Jack Rabin (107-Robot Monster; 201-Rocketship X-M;
602-Invasion USA; L01-World Without End)
SFX: Irving A. Block* (201/L01; War of the Satellites)
SFX: Louis DeWitt (902-The Phantom Planet; Kronos; Macabre)
Cos: Gwen Fitzer (The Wild Party)
M/U: Harry Ross (103-The Mad Monster; 208-Lost Continent)
Asst Dir: Jack Bohrer (315; The Raven; pmgr/406/701)
PMgr: Lionel C. Place
ADir: Robert Kinoshita (pdes/902; Teenage Doll)
Sound: Herman Lewis (315/701; 512-Mitchell; Apache Woman)
Score: Albert Glasser (arr/201; sco/*309/313/315/319/602;
409-The Indestructible Man; 414-Tormented;
517-Beginning of the End; 611-Last of the Wild Horses)
Ch: Wilda Taylor (The Fastest Guitar Alive)

Leader Desir / Abby Dalton (Stakeout on Dope Street)
Priestess Enger / Susan Cabot (Son of Ali Baba; Wasp Woman)
Vedric, Asmild's lover / Brad Jackson (It Came From Outer Space)
Asmild, Desir's sister / June Kenney (*313; 607-Bloodlust)
King Stark of the Grimaults / Richard Devon (806)
Thyra / Betsy Jones-Moreland (Creature from the Haunted Sea)
stowaway Ottar / Jonathan Haze*
Prince Senja / Jay Sayer (Teenage Doll; War of the Satellites)
Jarl / Gary Conway (I Was A Teenage Frankenstein)
Grimault dancer / Wilda Taylor
Sanda / Sally Todd (320-The Unearthly; Frankenstein's Daughter)
Zarko / Michael Forrest (Atlas)
A Grimault? / Ross Sturlin (*315/406/701)
Dagda / Lynn Bernay (I Bury the Living; Night of Evil)
na / Barboura Morris (315; Atlas; The Wasp Woman)

Classic line: "But you don't understand! I'm a prince! I'm a Grimault warrior!"

Trivia: In far shots, the sea serpent was actually SFX guy IRVING BLOCK's finger, covered with clay, with a fin stuck on it!

Besides VIKING WOMEN, Bronson Canyon was used for exterior shots in the filming of 107-ROBOT MONSTER; 210-KING DINOSAUR; 311-IT CONQUERED THE WORLD; 315-TEENAGE CAVEMAN; 319-WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST; 404-TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE; and 701-NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST.

Short, dark and muscular, JONATHAN HAZE starred in all five Corman MSTed films (plus MST3K The Home Game), and is also the actor seen in the most MST movies. For 317-VIKING WOMEN, Corman had Haze curl and dye his hair blond so he could play the sole male Viking stowaway Ottar. (He did NOT play the Prince of the Grimault Warriors). He's supposed to look Hispanic as Private Ortiz in 311-IT CONQUERED THE WORLD. He was the pickpocket in 503-SWAMP DIAMONDS; a cave teen in 315-TEENAGE CAVEMAN; the short assistant to statuesque bar owner Allison Hayes in 511-GUNSLINGER; and the dying contaminated man in H01-THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED. Haze was in 1957's Poor White Trash (with Peter Graves) and had the lead in Corman's great little flick from 1960, Little Shop of Horrors. Apparently Corman was miffed at Haze selling a screenplay to someone else, and didn't hire him again. Frustrated with the actor's life and periodic professional rejection, Haze retired from acting soon thereafter. He later produced films, and recently retired, still looking handsome, trim and fit.

Last Updated: 6/21/1999