The Prodigal (1955)

Micah: Asham. I've drunk deep of every wine from here to Petra, and I've had my full share of women. Yet I'm behaving like a beardless boy panting for the first forbidden fruit that he sees. A priestess who worships a painted graven image! But she's in my blood!

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Ruth: A woman always knows more than her man thinks.

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Samarra: A high priestess cries the day she is born and never again in her lifetime.

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This was Lana Turner's first movie in CinemaScope.
Ava Gardner and Vittorio Gassman were originally cast as Edmund Purdom's co-stars.
Jazz performer and arranger Melba Liston has an uncredited role as a servant woman.
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