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The Long Ships (1964) Facts
| Director(s) | Jack Cardiff |
| Producer(s) | Irving Allen |
| Featured Cast | Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn, Oscar Homolka, Lionel Jeffries |
| Total Facts | 2 |
Average Shot Length = ~6.2 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~5.9 seconds.
Film known for a torture contraption called the "Mare of Steel" depicted as a huge curved blade as large as a Trojan Horse, which unlucky prisoners were forced to climb and ride down on their exposed bellies, hands tied, splaying them open at it's base and impaling them on a bed of two foot steel spikes.