Last Days of Sodom & Gomorrah [Hong Kong]

Director: Robert Aldrich, Sergio Leone Robert Aldrich

Overview

This graphically violent epic recreates the decadence and events that lead to the downfall of the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/11/2007
UPC:	4897007031788
Original Release:	1962
Source:	Imports
Language:	English
Sales rank:	24,870

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Pier Angeli	Ildith
Stewart Granger	Lot
Stanley Baker	Astaroth
Rossana Podesta	Actor
Claudia Mori	Actor
Rik Battaglia	Actor
Giacomo Rossi-Stuart	Actor
Feodor Chaliapin Jr.	Actor
Aldo Silvani	Actor
Enzo Fiermonte	Actor
Scilla Gabel	Actor
Al Silvani	Nacor
Anthony Steffen	Actor
Gabriele Tinti	Actor
Vito De Taranto	Captain
Daniele Vargas	Actor
Massimo Pietrobon	Actor
Andrea Tagliabue	Actor
Francesco Tensi	Actor
Mitsuko Takara	Actor
Liana del Balzo	Actor
Mimmo Palmara	Actor
Ellen Kessler	Actor,Actor
Giovanna Galletti	Actor
Rossana Podestà	Shuah
Vittorio Artesi	Actor
Primo Moroni	Actor
Anouk Aimée	The Queen
Miklós Rózsa	Composer
Emilio Messina	Actor,Actor
Omero Capanna	Rider
Finlay Currie	Dubbing
Tom Felleghy	Actor
Duncan Lamont	Dubbing
Valentino Macchi	Actor
George Pastell	Dubbing

Technical Credits

Hugo Butler

Giorgio Prosperi

Ernesto Gastaldi

Robert Aldrich	Director
Hugo Butler	Screenwriter
Goffredo Lombardo	Producer
Serse Urbisaglia	Special Effects
Wally Veevers	Special Effects
Lee Zavitz	Special Effects
Sergio Leone	Director
Giorgio Prosperi	Screenwriter
Ernesto Gastaldi	Screenwriter
Leslie Hodgson	Sound Effects
Aldo De Robertis	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

Director Robert Aldrich's approach to this 1963 motion picture is obvious from the start: Forget subtlety. Make everything big and beautiful and brutal. So he gives viewers sumptuous palaces, dancing girls, death by torture, and war. Based on accounts in the Book of Genesis, the production follows the fortunes of Lot (Stewart Granger), a nephew of the Hebrew patriarch Abraham, as he settles his people in a Dead Sea valley near the end of the 21st Century, B.C., to grow crops and graze animals. Sodom and Gomorrah's Queen Bera (Anouk Aimée) grants him the valley land after Lot agrees to defend the sin cities against expected Helamite attacks. The sets, costumes, and action scenes are more Hollywood than history--a veritable glitzkrieg of images--and modern viewers may balk at the chintzy special effects in the engagement between mounted Helamite warriors and stone-throwing Hebrew laborers who isolate the Helamites with a curtain of fire and then unleash a wall of water from a breached dam. The quality of the acting ranges from masterly to moronic. Granger, Aimée, and Stanley Baker as Astaroth (the queen's brother and rival for power) all perform capably and sometimes excellently. As Lot's wife Ildith, Pier Angeli uses her Italian accent to sound exotic and ancient, to good effect, and she looks inviting as a slinky temptress and a pillar of salt. The rest of the cast resembles tryout day for a school play.