updated: 28/11/2003
This movie really puzzles me: was it just ignorance on the part of the filmmakers? did they believe their audience was ignorant? or was it that Hammer assumed that as long as they paraded a few scantily clad starlets no one would care? Whatever: this is one of the worst movies that Hammer managed to produce. And no there were no Viking queens in Roman Britain.
Anyway part way through this mess a very unlikely-looking Nubian slave girl (Nita Lorraine) gives somebody a massage. And yes that is a bodypaint job under the metalwork. Clearly, after a lot of thought and consideration of potential actresses for the role the filmmakers were unable to find a black actress in mid-1960s Britain capable of performing such a demanding role.
Charle E Parker was the makeup supervisor.