Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: story centres on immense golden bell named Mother of Voices, Fact2: Poitier mount expedition to search for it, Fact3: Rolfe 's father has been made destitute after spending fortune building funeral ship for Danish king, Fact4: Rolfe and brother steal not only ship, Fact5: Harald takes king 's daughter as In to prevent Harald from killing father in revenge for theft hostage
Output (English): The story centres on an immense golden bell named the Mother of Voices, which may or may not exist. Moorish king Aly Mansuh Sidney Poitier is convinced that it does. Having collected all the legendary material about it that he can, he plans to mount an expedition to search for it. When the shipwrecked Norseman, Rolfe Richard Widmark, repeats the story of the bell in the marketplace, and hints that he knows its location, he is seized by Mansuhs men and brought in for questioning. Rolfe insists that he does not know and that the bell is only a myth. He manages to escape before the questioning continues under torture. Managing to return home, Rolfe reveals to his father that he did indeed hear the bell pealing on the night his ship was wrecked in Africa. However, Rolfes father has been made destitute after spending a fortune building a funeral ship for the Danish king, Harald Bluetooth, who then refuses to reimburse him by citing an outstanding debt. Rationalising that the ship does not yet belong to Harald since he is still living, Rolfe and his brother steal not only the ship, but kidnap a number of inebriated Vikings to serve as its crew. In order to prevent Harald from killing his father in revenge for the theft, he also takes the kings daughter as a hostage. Harald declares that he will summon every longship he can find and rescue her. After prolonged difficulties at sea, the ship is damaged in a maelstrom. The Norse are cast ashore in Mansuhs country. Captured by the Moors, the Norse are condemned to execution but Mansuhs favourite wife Aminah Rosanna Schiaffino convinces her husband to use them and their longship to retrieve the bell. Arriving at the Pillars of Hercules, Rolfe and Mansuh find only a domed chapel with a small bronze bell where the Viking was certain he had heard the Mother of Voices. Frustrated, Rolfe throws the hanging bell against a wall and the resounding cacophony reveals that the chapel dome is the disguised Mother of Voices. After a costly misadventure moving the Mother of Voices from its clifftop down to the sea, the expedition finally returns to the Moorish city, Aly Mansuh triumphantly riding through the streets with the bell in tow. As the group reaches Mansuhs palace, Aminah suddenly cries aloud that the long ships came in the night and is immediately shot down by a spear. A group of Vikings come leaping out from behind the silent townspeople. These Norsemen are King Haralds men, out to rescue the princess, and the climactic battle ensues. It ends when the bell falls over and crushes Aly Mansuh. The Moors are defeated and the Vikings victorious. The film ends as Rolfe tells King Harald about the three crowns of the Saxon kings.