The Prodigal (1955)

Micah: [referring to his first sight of Samarra] Nahreeb, you said that everything has its price.
Nahreeb: She is not for a follower of Jehovah!
Micah: I mean to have her one way or the other!

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Samarra: The women in the wheel are the pick of the market. Did you not notice how superb were the haunches of the Grecian woman and how the lips of the Egyptian parted when she looked at any man?

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Nahreeb: Damacus has dealt generously with you. Even your slave has a slave.

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