Twentieth Century-Fox
Directed by Robert Aldrich
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Fox Movie Channel)
Stewart Granger is Lot, who leads his wandering tribe of Hebrews to a parched tract of land across the river from the hedonistic city of Sodom. Bad idea. He makes a bargain with Queen Bera to buy the land in exchange for food. They build a dam and are quite successful. However, the Queen's brother allies himself with the violent nomad tribe who attacks the Hebrews. A grand battle ensues, capped off by a dam break which drowns all of the nomads, a poor imitation of the parting of the Red Sea from The Ten Commandments. Their land useless, the Hebrews move into the city of Sodom, hoping to convert them. Instead, it works the other way around and soon the once peaceful tribe is living in sin. It takes another act of God to save them. Too much melodrama and politics, not enough spectacle.
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