

Tamar refuses to speak under interrogation and Bera has her and her two young sisters killed. Queen Bera demands the name of her co-conspirator. Returning from her meeting in the desert with the Elamite leader, Tamar is captured by a Sodomite patrol. The decadent citizens, who have become wealthy by trading salt, live in luxury and use slaves as servants and for violent games of entertainment.Īfter a night of revelry, Astaroth ( 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 Aimée). The twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah prosper because of their great deposits of salt, which are mined by an army of slaves. An international co-production between France, Italy and the United States, the film stars Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, Stanley Baker, Rossana Podestà, Rik Battaglia, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart and Anouk Aimée. Sodom and Gomorrah (also known as The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah in the United States) is a 1962 epic film directed by Robert Aldrich from a screenplay by Hugo Butler and Giorgio Prosperi, loosely based on the Biblical reading of Sodom and Gomorrah.
