He didn't waste a frame. Nor did he spare anyone's feelings on the set. He was an absolute demon." It was with first film Michael Forest made for Corman. He met the director in an acting class and was cast. Forest said Corman "was a bit cavalier in the way he would do things and allow the actors to take the chances that they did. But I must also say this: Roger was right there. I mean, if he asked you to climb up something and you said, "Where do you want us to climb?" he would climb up and show you — "This is what I want you to do." It wasn't as if he was saying, "Go out there and battle that tiger, I'll just stand back here and watch you do it" — you know what I mean? He was good about that. But he didn't really protect the actors that much from getting hurt, not in the early days, anyway." Corman said by the time he came to shoot the effects "I realised I had been had." While he felt Block and Rabin were honest "they had simply promised something they could not deliver. A great sales pitch had distorted my judgement and AIPs." He said as a result of this he longer accepted oral propsals from people, he insisted it be written. Corman later said "The full title is "The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent". We couldn't figure out a way to put the title in two or three words, so I said let's go to the other extreme and give them the longest title they've ever seen and then use the great-est cliche in historical pictures at the time which is to open up on an engraved leather book, a hand comes in, opens the cover of the book, and there's the title of the picture." "The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent" was released in theaters on April 10, 1958 by American International Pictures as a double feature with "The Astounding She-Monster". The film was released on DVD by Lionsgate Home Entertainment on April 18, 2006, as part of a two-disc set, with "Teenage Caveman" as the first disc. Dan Lester of "Electric Sheep" magazine wrote in his review: "This is a cheap looking film even by Roger Corman's standards. There is only one proper set, the Grimalts dining hall (probably left over from another film), with most of the action taking place in featureless outdoor such as woods and beaches".