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Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)
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23 January 1963 (USA)
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Sex, torture and betrayal in Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot, leader of the Hebrews, believes his people can co-exist with the Sodomites...
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Bad as a Blibical epic or Peplum
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Stewart Granger | ... | Lot | |
| Stanley Baker | ... | Astaroth | |
| Pier Angeli | ... | Ildith | |
| Rossana Podestà | ... | Shuah | |
| Rik Battaglia | ... | Melchior | |
| Giacomo Rossi-Stuart | ... | Ishmael (as Giacomo Rossi Stuart) | |
| Scilla Gabel | ... | Tamar | |
| Anthony Steffen | ... | The Captain (as Antonio de Teffè) | |
| Gabriele Tinti | ... | Lieutenant | |
| Enzo Fiermonte | ... | Eber | |
| Daniele Vargas | ... | Segur | |
| Claudia Mori | ... | Maleb | |
| Feodor Chaliapin Jr. | ... | Alabias (as Feodor Chaliapin) | |
| Mitsuko Takara | ... | Orphea (as Mitzuko Takara) | |
| Massimo Pietrobon | ... | Isaac |
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154 min | Argentina:155 min | Finland:141 min (1963) | Finland:117 min (1979)
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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UK:PG (1988) |
Iceland:16 |
Netherlands:16 (DVD rating) |
West Germany:18 (nf) |
South Korea:12 |
Argentina:13 |
Finland:K-16 |
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Twentieth Century Fox staged the world premiere of the film at Wilmington, Delaware's Rialto Theater.
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Hebrews and Sodomites: Greetings!
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Featured in For the Bible Tells Me So (2007)
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Robert Aldrich directed some classic films, like WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE, but he also directed not so great classics, like the stunningly bad but entertaining LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE. SODOM AND GOMORRAH is neither a good nor entertainingly bad film. It's just plain bad. The production values, though sorta grand, are awful. Everything looks grubby. The actors are totally miscast. The characters are not memorable or even interesting at any level whatsoever. The acting is awful. The action scenes are overdone and do not seem to gel with the rest of the leaden drama. The movie is all around sloppy and it's filled with many technical goofs, like visible tire tracks in the desert. No one, and I mean no one's heart was into this project. And it shows on screen.
The mesmerizing Anouk Aimée is totally miscast as the evil Queen. Playing a lesbian, she wasn't believable on any level, as a Queen or someone evil or as a lesbian. Stewart Granger was blah (certainly compared to his excellent turn as Apollodorus in CAESAR & CLEOPATRA). I suspect Aldrich hated either the character or Granger the actor because Lot came across as someone virtuous and yet totally stupid. Like some sort of Dudley Do Wrong.
Aldrich's penchant for things crude and quasi-trashy are in evidence throughout the movie. He certainly loves showcasing evil lesbians in his films (LYLAH CLARE, KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE, etc) and changing the actual ruler of Sodom from a King to a Queen, in order to indulge in his fetish, pointed to me that the director wasn't interested in anything to do with facts or creating a compelling dramatic story. Because of this, this grand epic looks no grander than your average Sword & Sandal film. In fact, Peplums are more fun than this because they rarely take themselves as seriously as this misguided project. There are some moment of great unintentional cheese/camp here but the film is way too long and tedious to make it worthwhile. Skip it.