The Saga Of The Viking Women And Their Voyage To The Waters Of The Great Sea Serpent (1957)

Three years after their men have left for an expedition and not returned, a group of Viking women set out to sea in search of their men. After their ship is overturned by a massive sea serpent, they find themselves washed on the shores of Malibu Beach where a group of Barbarians enslave them. This rather ludicrously named (it was cut down on marquees to the slimmer VIKING WOMEN AND THE SEA SERPENT) piece of low budget American-International pulp courtesy of writer/director Roger Corman is grandly entertaining in the way so many bad movies can be. The Viking women sail the seas against a rear projection backdrop with a Godzilla like rubber monster roaring at them while off screen prop men toss buckets of water on them. Confronted by one of the Barbarians, Jonathan Haze anachronistically yells at him, "You big slob!". You get the picture! If you've a taste for this kind of low budget ham and cheese, you'll be in hog heaven. The cast includes Abby Dalton (TV's FALCON CREST), Susan Cabot, Betsy Jones Moreland, Richard Devon and Bradford Jackson.