- Samarra, high priestess of Astarte in Damascus, is the East-as-temptress made flesh: she seduces a Hebrew farm boy out of his inheritance and his faith, in service of gods who demand money, jewels, and human lives.
The Prodigal (1955)
film · 1955 film by Richard Thorpe
- Director
- Richard Thorpe
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Distributor
- Netflix
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Genres
- historical film, sword-and-sandal film
- Cast
- Lana Turner, Edmund Purdom, Louis Calhern, Joseph Wiseman