Title: MGM reaches the nadir of tastelesness
Product review: I rented this DVD from Netflix. I hadn't seen this film for many years. I guess I was a teenager when I first saw it back in the 1950's. The film is badly miscast: Louis Calhern as a high priest of Baal wearing a replica of the papal tiara, Edmund Purdom (where is he now?) as the prodigal son should have won a raspberry for his performance. And Lana Turner was much, MUCH too old to play a "virginal" high priestess of Astarte. After watching this film I came to realize how much more sophisticated films have become over the past fifty years. The film storyline was set seventy years before the time of Christ. Where were the Roman legions that dominated the middle east at this time? TThere are much better Biblical films to wile away one's time.
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