Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)

Sex, torture and betrayal in Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot, leader of the Hebrews, believes his people can co-exist with the Sodomites, a disastrous decision.

Director:

Robert Aldrich

Writers:

Hugo Butler (original screenplay), Giorgio Prosperi (original screenplay assisted by)

Stars:

Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, Stanley Baker

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Stewart Granger	...	Lot
Pier Angeli	...	Ildith
Stanley Baker	...	Astaroth
Rossana Podestà	...	Shuah (as Rossana Podesta)
Rik Battaglia	...	Melchior
Giacomo Rossi Stuart	...	Ishmael
Scilla Gabel	...	Tamar
Anthony Steffen	...	The Captain (as Antonio De Teffe)
Enzo Fiermonte	...	Eber
Gabriele Tinti	...	Lieutenant
Daniele Vargas	...	Segur
Claudia Mori	...	Maleb
Feodor Chaliapin Jr.	...	Alabias (as Feodor Chaliapin)
Mitsuko Takara	...	Orphea (as Mitzuko Takara)
Massimo Pietrobon	...	Isaac

Storyline

Sex, torture and betrayal in Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot, leader of the Hebrews, believes his people can co-exist with the Sodomites, a disastrous decision.

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Plot Keywords:

torture | sodom | sodom and gomorrah | hebrew | gomorrah | 

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Taglines:

The cities that mocked the very name of God...The vengeance that tore the Earth asunder!

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Genres:

Adventure | Drama | History

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Certificate:

G

Details

Country:

Italy France USA

Language:

English Spanish Indonesian

Release Date:

23 January 1963 (USA)

Also Known As:

Sodom and Gomorrah

Filming Locations:

Ait Benhaddou, Morocco

Company Credits

Production Co:

Titanus,Pathé Consortium Cinéma,Société Générale de Cinématographie (S.G.C.)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

154 min 141 min (1963) 117 min (1979) 115 min (heavily cut)

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Filmed on several of the same North African locations as "The Black Rose" (1950).

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Goofs

(at around 1h 20 mins) During the overhead scene which shows the men riding horses toward battle, you can see vehicle tire tracks.

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Quotes

[as the traitor Melchior is trapped in flames and pleading for mercy]
Ishmael: I hear no voice. The dead cannot speak.

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Connections

Edited into Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam (1982)

User Reviews

How Are Things in Sodom and Gomorrah? Is the salt still springing there?

With the filming of Sodom and Gomorrah, Stewart Granger began a phase of his career on the European continent. Not that Sodom and Gomorrah is any great film, but it was certainly better than some of those spaghetti westerns he did in the Sixties to pay for his hedonistic life style. Something like the one they allegedly lived down Sodom way.

Of course Sodom and Gomorrah doesn't stick to the biblical version of the tale, but then neither did those DeMille epics, Samson and Delilah and The Ten Commandments. Nor is homosexuality singled out as THE sin that got the Deity all upset that he wanted to destroy the place. Then again it isn't even in the Bible.

Lot as portrayed by Stewart Granger doesn't take just his family there, he leads a whole tribe of Hebrew people there after he parts from Uncle Abraham. Pretty soon he gets all tangled up in Sodomite politics and gets a bit entangled himself with Pier Angeli who is a slave girl to Queen Anouk Aimee.

Villain of the piece is Stanley Baker who always improves every film he was ever in. He's Anouk's brother and he's got the idea he ought to be running things. He's also got an eye for Lot's daughters.

There's a very nicely staged battle sequence with the Hebrews defending the land granted them by Anouk. But the script is definitely out of the Cecil B. DeMille school of arcane Victorian writing.

Still it's entertaining in many respects.