The Norseman

The Norseman is a 1978 American adventure film starring Lee Majors, directed, produced and written by Charles B. Pierce.
== Plot ==
An 11th-century Viking prince sails to North America to find his father, who on a previous voyage had been captured by Native Americans.
== Cast ==
* Lee Majors - Thorvald
* Cornel Wilde - Ragnar
* Mel Ferrer - King Eurich
* Jack Elam - Death Dreamer
* Susie Coelho - Winetta
* Christopher Connelly - Rolf
* Jimmy Clem - Olif
* Deacon Jones - Thrall
* Denny Miller - Rauric
* Kathleen Freeman - Old Indian Woman
== Production ==
The film was a co production between Charles Pierce and Lee Majors with AIP doing the distribution. It was Pierce's first film with a major Hollywood studio.
Majors said it "took a lot of guts" to play a Viking but was persuaded by a fee of $500,000 and 10% of the profits. He later said "I had a little time off, and they said, “It shoots in Florida, on the coast there, out of Tampa,” and they had a bunch of Tampa Bay Buccaneers that were gonna play Vikings, so… I don’t know, I thought it’d be fun, so I did it."
The film was shot in Tampa, Florida. Post production was done at Pierce's $2 million facilitiy at Shreveport, Louisiana.
"There is no character to develop here and hardly any dialogue," said Majors, "this is a formula film."
== Reception ==
The Los Angeles Times called it "tedious business".
Category:1978 films
Category:American International Pictures films
Category:Adventure films