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...Sodom and Gomorrah. Salt was the wealth of the "cities of the plain," and salty was their reputation. "God gave them up," St. Paul says, "unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another." To a moviemaker, the subject presents certain problems of visualization. But Producer Goffredo Lombardo, one of Italy's mightiest cinemagnates, is no man to be daunted by difficulties. De Luxe Color, cast of thousands, budget...
Only the kiddies, in any case, are likely to sit through this bushwa. Sodom is presented as a mighty metropolis, the New York of the Negev; actually, it was more like the Atlantic City of the Dead Sea, a boom town that got brimstoned about 1900 B.C. And the Bible story, as Producer Lombardo tells it, has plenty of gee whiz but very little Genesis. Lot (Stewart Granger) is shown as an athletic saint who spends most of his time improbably clobbering swordsmen with a shepherd's crook. His wife (Pier Angeli) is shown as a scarlet woman...
Within the past eight years. Phenix City has gone from a Sodom to a ghost town to a bustling community with reasonably high hopes for a decent and profitable future...
Eager as the world's press was to help Hollywood to the glory of blame ("Sodom!" cried Libération from Paris), it could not match Hollywood's own enthusiasm for its role as the guilty...
Once a thriving center of trade, it was almost completely destroyed by the 'Great Fire' of 'oh-oh-six, an disaster which leveled the nearby townships of Sodom and Gomorrah. Now a cultural and backwater, it is not recommended for tourists...