Sunday, November 11, 2012

Photo of the Day

Samarra  (Lana Turner) and Nahreeb (Louis Calhern) prepare for a human sacrifice (stuntman George Robotham) in THE PRODIGAL

I never understood why they sacrificed a man for this scene. It was played with cult-like proceedings with one of its members to be sacrifice for the greater good but sacrificing healthy men in their prime doesn't seem much of a sacrifice when most of them would die on some battlefield anyway...or so that's how they, as a society, were supposed to think.

BTW, the colors in this image are totally off: Lana's and the man's skimpy clothes are not yellow in the film but white. And the walls and columns are supposed to be red.

2 comments:

S.R.Orsulak said...

The picture you are showing is really way off on the colors. I ask if this picture is from a Lobby Card??

PEPLUM cinema said...

yes it's from a lobby card. Even if the colors are off you don't see the amount of detail in the film compared to this image