Meanwhile, Lot ( Stewart Granger) leads his family and a Hebrew tribe through the desert, hoping that he can find a permanent home for his people along the fertile banks of the River Jordan. Tamar refuses to speak under interrogation and Bera has her and her two young sisters killed. Queen Bera demands the name of her co-conspirator. Returning from her meeting in the desert with the Elamite leader, Tamar is captured by a Sodomite patrol. The decadent citizens, who have become wealthy by trading salt, live in luxury and use slaves as servants and for violent games of entertainment.Īfter a night of revelry, Astaroth ( Stanley Baker), the Prince of Sodom, tells slave girl Tamar ( Scilla Gabel) to carry a message to the king of the Elamites, with whom he plans to overthrow his sister, Bera, Queen of Sodom ( Anouk Aimée). The twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah prosper because of their great deposits of salt, which are mined by an army of slaves. An international co-production between France, Italy and the United States, the film stars Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, Stanley Baker, Rossana Podestà, Rik Battaglia, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart and Anouk Aimée. Sodom and Gomorrah (also known as The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah in the United States) is a 1962 epic film directed by Robert Aldrich from a screenplay by Hugo Butler and Giorgio Prosperi, loosely based on the Biblical reading of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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