While Anouk Aimeé is splendid as the evil queen and Stanley Baker as her brother steals the show, getting by on leering at every girl who comes near. Weak acting by Stewart Granger in his usual style, Pier Angeli is as charmingly gorgeous as ever playing Lot's wife who will have a fateful and known finale. Watchable for Ken Adam's settings and production design, though God's ending destruction of the sinner cities turns out to be very ridiculous, embarrassing and lousily made.
Originally budgeted at $2 million, the cost of the film quickly rose to $5 million, it failed at box office and to this day has not regained profits. Bwing badly written by Hugo Butler, Giorgio Prosperi, and the prolific Ernesto Gastaldi. Moderately amusing but ponderous, to say at least, and overlong, though briefly entertaining. The sin is regarded by the Sex, torture and betrayal, no for sodomism. Sin is suggested by languid groups of people little adequately dressed in 60s evening costumes and strolling down the floor, while the rebel Hebrews look more like a bunch of self-sufficient drifters droning on about making the land fertile. This Italian-made, lavishly produced by the powerful producer Goffredo Lombardo and his Titanus, being an internationally financed epic concerning the two sinful biblical cities, but it never lives up from first line of dialog.
The cities that mocked the very name of God.The vengeance that tore the Earth asunder! Inside their hearts no good existed, inside their cities no God ¡ Pagan pleasures of the Sodom court ¡ Once, only once, have the hosts of heaven descended on the cities of earth in chariots of fire, only once has the hand of God reached down in vengeance ¡ Sins so shocking they scandalized even Sodomah ¡ Sins so infamous the centuries have never forgotten them ¡ The men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly : Genesis. As Lot, leader of the Hebrews, believes his people can co-exist with the Sodomites and their cities of evil led by an uncanny Queen (Anouk Aimee) and her nasty brother Astaroth (Stanley Baker), but it results to be a fateful decision with disastrous consecuences. Lot is warned to ¨Beware of the Sodomites¨ who come up capture slaves and Hebrews. This tale regards Lot (Stewart Granger who wields a mighty staff), leader the virtuous Hebrews and the destruction of two Twin Cities of Sin, the Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah.