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1962
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Synopsis
The cities that mocked the very name of God... The vengeance that tore the Earth asunder!
Lot leads his people to a fertile valley adjacent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, hotbeds of vice and corruption ruled by the merciless Queen Bera. When Lot orders a dam to be busted in order to prevent the destruction of the cities by the attacking Helamites, the queen, in gratitude, allows Lot's people to settle in Sodom. Soon, however, the veneer of civilization begins crumbling as Lot and the Hebrews become corrupted by the Sodomites.
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Stewart Granger Pier Angeli Stanley Baker Rossana Podestà Rik Battaglia Giacomo Rossi Stuart Scilla Gabel Anthony Steffen Enzo Fiermonte Gabriele Tinti Daniele Vargas Claudia Mori Feodor Chaliapin Jr. Mitsuko Takara Massimo Pietrobon Mimmo Palmara Liana Del Balzo Francesco Tensi Andrea Tagliabue Alice Kessler Ellen Kessler Anouk Aimée Emilio Messina Roberto Messina Aldo Silvani Armando Fracassi Vittorio Artesi Lars Bloch Sal Borgese Show All…
DirectorDirector
Robert Aldrich
ProducersProducers
Goffredo Lombardo Giorgio Adriani Mario Del Papa Giorgio Zambon
WritersWriters
Hugo Butler Giorgio Prosperi
Original WriterOriginal Writer
Richard Wormser
EditorsEditors
Peter Tanner Mario Serandrei
CinematographyCinematography
Silvano Ippoliti Cyril J. Knowles Mario Montuori Alfio Contini
Additional DirectingAdd. Directing
Sergio Leone
Executive ProducerExec. Producer
Maurizio Lodi-Fè
Production DesignProduction Design
Ken Adam
Set DecorationSet Decoration
Gino Brosio Emilio D'Andria
ComposerComposer
Miklós Rózsa
Costume DesignCostume Design
Giancarlo Bartolini Salimbeni
Studios
Société Générale de Cinématographie (S.G.C.) Titanus Pathé Consortium Cinéma 20th Century Fox
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France Italy USA
Language
English
Alternative Titles
The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah, Sodom und Gomorrha, Sodoma y Gomorra, Sodom och Gomorra, Sodoma e Gomorra, Sodom en Gomorra, Sodoma ja Gomorra, Sodoma och Gomorra, Sodoma og Gomorra, Sodome et Gomorrhe, ソドムとゴモラ, Sodoma și Gomora, Содом и Гоморра, Hazreti Lut'un Gazabı, Hz. Lut'un Emri, 소돔과 고모라, 天火焚城录, Sodoma i Gomorra, Hazreti Lut’un Gazabı
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Drama History Adventure
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Epic history and literature Historical battles and epic heroism Lavish dramas and sumptuous royalty Faith and spiritual journeys Show All…
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09 Dec 2021
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Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★½ 2
Action! - The Postwar Hollywood 3: Reworking Aldrich
Now I want someone who has never heard about the Biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah and see what they make of the fixation this movie has with salt. Though points to them for providing some reasoning behind that.
But yeah, this one was garbage, and from what I’ve read from some production notes, it was doom from the very beginning. It's one of those films where you wonder whether this was a product of Hollywood (or, in this case, the Italian film industry) burning cash for the sake of proving they can be as big as Hollywood or if there was some money laundering situation going on. The production design was…
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Review by threepenny ★★★½ 10
You know they're scraping the bottom of the biblical epic barrel when someone comes up with the idea to make a story about...Lot. Lot! Stewart Granger really drew the short straw with this one. Lot is known in the bible for two things: first, he's hosting some strangers in his house in Sodom and a crowd gathers who want to gang rape them, he offers his virgin daughters to the mob instead. Second, after Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed, his daughters are afraid they are the only people still alive on earth and so they take turns getting Lot drunk and getting knocked up by their father. This story does not an epic make. And as it turns out, neither…
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Review by 📀 Cammmalot 📀 ★★★ 3
Cinematic Time Capsule1962 Marathon - Film #106
”Everything that gives pleasure is good”
Tonight on SUPER SEXY FUN TOWN, we’ll be looking at some complex land negotiations deep within the River Jordan Valley.
Along the way we’ll also be treated to plenty of hot & sweaty political debates about slave ownership.
Also, in the Financial Corner we’ll be sharing a fascinating segement on the complicated history of salt mining rights.
And you won’t want to miss when Lot, the leader of the Hebrew tribe stops by with some hair and fashion tips that would make even Jor-El of the Kryptonian high council jealous.
Finally, be sure to stick around for the fabulous smiting of the evil sodomites as you’ll have…
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Review by Schratzi ★★★★
No prisoners will be taken. The word of the day is: Kill !
How could you not be curious about a big-budget Italian sword and sandal epic, directed by the one and only Robert Aldrich, that is finally beautifully restored and uncut.
This one has quite a bad rep and is often considered Aldrich‘s worst movie. Now let me bring you the good word: This may well be his most underrated title and it nearly blew me away. It is just about one of the fastest moving two and a half hours I have seen. It certainly stands head and shoulders above all those stuffy, overlong, conservative biblical Hollywood epics like Ben Hur(or: Do I really have to wait three… -
Review by Fint ★★½ 4
And lo, the Lord Stewart Granger did look upon His legs. And they were good. And He did decree to His people that all the men of His chosen tribe should wear mini skirts so that their legs, and most especially the legs of their Lord, should be on constant display. And it was so. And the Lord Stewart was pleased.
What to say about Sodom and Gomorrah, an epic about unspeakable vices that was made in 1962, when the vices were certainly known and most certainly could not be shown? Thus we have the credit sequence of the after-orgy, with dozens of shapely bodies asleep, their lusts sated, and their every stitch of clothing still clinging to those sinful…
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Review by KYK ★★★★
watching lot’s wife turn around to look at sodom one last time fucked me up in a way reading the bible never did. also anouk aimee my psycho queeeen!!
35mm. Film Forum.
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Review by Owen Hughes ★½
A really, really long biblical epic that is so patronising and cheesy I'm not quite sure how I managed to make it to the end.
Stewart Granger plays Lot, leader of the Hebrew people, as he tries to create a settlement outside of the cities of Sodom & Gamorrah before eventually succumbing to their fiendish and sinful lifestyle involving doing things for fun and not wanting to walk through the desert for years and years wearing nothing but sacks. The bloody heathens.
You wouldn't think it entirely possible to make a completely U-rated film about Sodom. I mean, what we've come to associate that term with nowadays, anal/homosexual intercourse, surely that's the sin that causes God to smite an entire city…
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Review by Xander ★★★ 4
1 And God said unto Robert Aldrich, Yea, thou shalt make unto me a peplum of epic proportions, and in it shalt thou tell the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.
2 And Robert Aldrich answered, Verily shall I do so! Long have I hungered to make an epic of Biblical times.
3 And God said, Yea, slow thy roll, thou hast not heard all the specifics of the film thou must make.
4 Thou shalt go to the land of Italy, and produce the film with the utmost cheapness. A big budget shalt thou not have.
5 Neither shalt thou have a big star. International art house darlings shalt thou have; yea, even Anouk Aimee to chew the scenery even… -
Review by Cate ★★½
Give us strength in the time ahead to overcome the misery of our bodies, the dryness of our throats... Help us to endure the fear that eats at our hearts.
An outlandishly mediocre, long, and badly dubbed Italian/British/Hollywood biblical epic, featuring:
- Stanley Baker, flamboyant in shimmering metallics and velvet capes, open-chested and jewelled and showing more thigh than any female character, asking 'is my skin soft? does my hair smell sweet?' while lying prostrate, beard perfectly manicured.
- Anouk Aimée, bored, bisexual, incestuous – outlandishly evil in only the way that a monarch can be and impeccably costumed, her nail-varnished fingers caressing Baker's mouth as she calls him her sweetest brother and oldest and dearest enemy.
- Stewart Granger's…
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Review by Einar ★★½ 2
The greatest peplum and monumental history epics were shot (at least partially) in Italy, at the Cinecitta Studios.
After the 1950s with for example the outstanding "Quo Vadis?" or "Ben Hur", the Italians took over control in the 1960s, when the big US productions slowly died. The peplums with Italians in charge were rather mass produced films with changing quality from poor to... very poor. Often they had two or more directors, one from Hollywood only for the name and a local. Here Robert Aldrich joins fellows like Andre De Toth or Raoul Walsh, I hope they all had at least a nice holiday in Europe."Sodom and Gomorrah" isn't the typical Italian mass ware, also indicated by the excessive…
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Review by Bob Cashill ★★★ 7
Robert Aldrich's Biblical peplum, a Babel of international talent in front of and behind the camera, doesn't get much respect. (Sergio Leone had a hand in the Italian coproduction, filmed in Morocco.) But Explosive Media's new region-free Blu-ray is the best way to see it--it looked OK on a Fox laserdisc I rented decades ago but that same transfer has been persistently recycled, short-changing an expensive and handsome production (with Ken Adam and Maurice Binder handling design duties on the cusp of their Bond tenure). The remastering better showcases where the Joseph E. Levine-sized budget went amidst a strained shoot, with Adam's full-sized cities on display and plenty of extras employed for the (tame) orgies, the big battle scene and…
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Review by Luscious Johnny V ★★½
Robert Aldrich-helmed peplum depicting the last days of the Fun Capital of the ancient world. Title is misleading: it really should just be called Sodom, and if I'm being honest, it could do with a little more sodomy. The theme is anti-assimilation and the sanctity of cultural identity, and if it’s not among Aldrich's greatest it’s at least the one Old Testament story best suited to his subversive sensibilities. The battle scenes are fairly rousing, and his staging of the Hebrews' ambush of the Elamites will echo strongly in Ulzana's Raid ten years later.
Unexpected dose of Borscht Belt humor: Lot (Stewart Granger, who seems genuinely befuddled ... except when he’s dealing pain with a shepherd’s crook) haggling with the angels over the number of Sodomites he must convert to save the city. It really felt like a Jackie Mason bit.
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