Sodom and Gomorrah (1962 film)

Sodom and Gomorrah known in the USA as The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah is a 1962 epic film which is loosely based on the Biblical tale of Sodom and Gomorrah. The film was a FrancoItalianAmerican coproduction made by Path, SGC and Titanus. It was directed by Robert Aldrich and produced by Maurizio LodiFe, Goffredo Lombardo and Joseph E. Levine. The screenplay was by Giorgio Prosperi and Hugo Butler, the cinematography by Alfio Contini, Silvano Ippoliti, Cyril J. Knowles and Mario Montuori, the music score by Mikls Rzsa, the production design by Ken Adam and the costume design by Giancarlo Bartolini Salimbeni and Peter Tanner.

The twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah prosper because of their great deposits of salt, which are mined by an army of slaves. The decadent citizens, who have become wealthy by trading salt, live in luxury and use slaves as servants and for violent games of entertainment.After a night of revelry, Astorath 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 Aime. Returning from her meeting in the desert with the Elamite leader, Tamar is captured by a Sodomite patrol. Queen Bera demands the name of her coconspirator. Tamar refuses to speak under interrogation and Bera has her and her two young sisters killed. ........

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