The first all-Technicolor feature, made in the two-strip process, The Viking tells of Leif Eriksson (played by an elaborately mustachioed Donald Crisp) and crew sailing from Norway to the East Coast of America. The adventures are many and wild-an attempted mutiny, several battles, and Eriksson's climactic conversion to Christianity among them-while Pauline Starke as Helga, the world's first Viking flapper, attracts her share of attention. Technicolor's Dr. Herbert Kalmus, who had the Viking idea for his first full-length effort, later reconsidered. "There seemed to be two principal troubles with The Viking," Dr. Kalmus remembers. "First, it came out among the very last silent pictures in 1929, and second, whiskers. Leif Eriksson, the Viking hero, true to character, had a long, curling mustache, whereas American audiences preferred their lovers smooth-shaven. At times the whole screen seemed filled with Viking whiskers. But the picture was a good color job and the first to be synchronized with music and sound effects" (quoted in Four Aspects of Film by James L. Limbacher).