![]() In exchange, the Hebrews will pay an annual tribute of grain and aid in the defence of Sodom against the Elamites. Lot persuades Bera to sell the Hebrews the land on the opposite side of the River Jordan to Sodom, despite warnings that said land is barren and will be hostile to their attempts to grow crops and raise livestock. The lives of the Sodomites are interrupted by the arrival of a tribe of Hebrews, led by Lot (Stewart Granger), the nephew of the Hebrew leader Abraham. Astaroth is conspiring with the neighbouring Elamites to overthrow Bera and rule Sodom himself. ![]() ![]() The twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah have grown wealthy from their salt mines, but the wealth is built on the backs of brutal slave labour, and the citizens have become decadent and corrupt, none more so than Queen Bera (Anouk Aimée) and her brother, Prince Astaroth (Stanley Baker). ![]() Levine and directed by Robert Aldrich from a screenplay by Giorgio Prosperi and Hugo Butler, (very) loosely based on the story of Sodom and Gomorrah from the Book of Genesis. Sodom and Gomorrah (known in the United States as The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah) is a 1962 Franco-Italian-American biblical epic, co-produced by Maurizio Lodi-Fe, Goffredo Lombardo, and Joseph E.
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