Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)

Director:

Robert Aldrich

Writers:

Hugo Butler (original screenplay)
Giorgio Prosperi (screenplay)

Release Date:

23 January 1963 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | History

Tagline:

Twin Cities of SIN

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Sodom And Gomorrah | Sodom | Biblical | Gomorrah | Bare Chested Male Bondage

Cast

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

Also Known As:

Sodoma e Gomorra (Italy)
Sodome et Gomorrhe (France)
The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah (USA)

Runtime:

154 min | Argentina:155 min | Finland:141 min (1963) | Finland:117 min (1979)

Country:

USA | Italy | France

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

UK:PG (1988) | Iceland:16 | Netherlands:16 (DVD rating) | West Germany:18 (nf) | South Korea:12 | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Portugal:17 (censored version)

Filming Locations:

Ait Benhaddou, Ouarzazate, Morocco

Company:

Titanus

Trivia:

Twentieth Century Fox staged the world premiere of the film at Wilmington, Delaware's Rialto Theater.

Quotes:

Ildith: Evil? How strange you are. Where I come from, nothing is evil. Everything that gives pleasure is good!
Lot: Where do you come from?
Ildith: There, not far, just ahead - Sodom and Gomorrah.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in An Opera of Violence (2003) (V)

Interesting & Entertaining but Bible purists will object.

An overlooked movie of a whole genre of films that was popular during its era. Like most biblical epics of this type they sometimes wonder away from the scriptural story as recorded in the Bible and this may be its one drawback. In a way it drifts just a little to far away from the scriptures so most bible purists will have trouble accepting this film as a close representation of the scriptures. However, overall it's an interesting and entertaining film.