 At the end of the film, a Viking ship is set afire by flaming arrows  in a rendering of a traditional Viking funeral. Director  Richard Fleischer (qv) took great care to have the archers  practice the moment, training them to release the arrows on the  count of "three," and hoping at least some of the arrows would arc  properly to hit the sail of the ship and set it on fire. When the  time came for the live shot, the director only reached the count of  "two", when one over