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Movie
The Prodigal
Synopsis
One critic has noted that The Prodigal was aptly titled, inasmuch as it was all too prodigal with the funds of the then-flagging MGM studios. In its retelling of the 22-verse Biblical story of the Prodigal Son, the film helpfully fills in the story details inconsiderately left out of the Old Testament. Edmond Purdon plays Micah, the wastrel son of Eli (Walter Hampden) who takes his share of his father's fortune and blows it all in wicked old Damascus. Micah's one redeeming feature is his unserving faithful in the Lord God Jehovah. Pagan princess Samarra (Lana Turner at her most giddily exotic) intends to seduce Micah into renouncing his faith, only to get stoned to death for her troubles. Nearly two hours pass before Micah returns home and the fatted calf is killed in his honor. If for nothing else, The Prodigal would be memorable for Lana Turner's pagan-ritual costume, which is little more than a glorified bikini.
Cast
- Edmund Purdom
- Lana Turner
- Louis Calhern
- Audrey Dalton
- James Mitchell
- Neville Brand
- Walter Hampden
- Taina Elg
- Francis L. Sullivan
- Joseph Wiseman
- Sandy Descher
- John Dehner
- Cecil Kellaway
- Philip Tonge
- Henry Daniell
- Paul Cavanagh
- Dayton Lummis
- Tracey Roberts
- Jarma Lewis
- Jay Novello
- Dorothy Adams
- Peter DeBear
- Phyllis Graffeo
- Patricia Iannone
- Eugene Mazzola
- George Sawaya
- Richard Devon
- Ann Cameron
- Gloria Dea
- John Rosser
- Charles Wagenheim
- Gordon Richards
- Paul Bryar
- Rex Lease
- George J. Lewis
- Almira Sessions
- Chuck Roberson
- Tom Steele
- Gloria Stone
- Linda Danson
- Joanne Dale
- Lucille Maracini
- Lila Zali
- Diane Gump
- Patricia Jackson
- John Damler
- Argentina Brunetti
- Allison Hayes
- Jo Gilbert
- George Robotham
- David Leonard
- Edwin B. Willis
- Joseph Ruttenberg
- Cedric Gibbons
- Herschel
- Harold F. Kress
- Maurice Zimm
- A. Arnold Gillespie
- William Tuttle
- Warren Newcombe
- Randall Duell