Honestly I didn't find her dancing all that seductive. "walking like an egyptian" is more seductive than this dance to me. Frankly the whole arm movement thing is the big put off for me.
This is extremely rare to see a bared navel in films of this period. If you look closely it appears that they've placed a jewel in her navel. They frequently resorted to that to please the censors of the day, who considered a naked female navel to be too provocative for the screen.
de la pelicula salomon y la reina de saba rodada en españa. tyron power murio durante el rodaje de un ataque al corazon siendo sustituido por yul brynner como salomon, la lollo fue la reina de saba, george sanders el tercero de la funcion
I hope to have a clip of the Lana Turner dance from "The Prodigal" (1955) uploaded to Youtube in a few weeks. Then everyone can decide for themselves whether your statement is accurate or not. Personally, I'm a little dubious.
Hi. I just watched "The Prodigal" through from beginning to end and there was no erotic dance by Lana Turner in the print I got. I guess it's possible that it was cut out. Can you please have a look at your DVD and give me the point in the film, in hours and minutes, where this supposed dance takes place.
Ms Turner wears a more revealing and much sexier, very leggy outfit while Ms Lollobrigida wears a long, floor-length skirt. A Cheescake Dance in that outfit would have been incedible.
It definitely looks like I've got one of the censored version coz there isn't a dance in the whole thing, much less TWO! It's a shame coz it's a gorgeous print, and comes with the trailer and a full commentary by a film historian.
I thought Rock looked a little stiff and jerky in that dance number. He certainly didn't have Lola's smooth and fluid movements.
Just a warning on your "texting" style abbreviations. I had no idea what cs was until I found the clip by searching "rock hudson".
i recorded this version from i have from tcm a few years ago -one dance is in the festival of virgins with turner not partaking where al the other priestesses dance for a short time ,
rock cannot match lolo at all she has a figure and supple movements to drive one insane -even the dance i uploaded from hunchback of notre dame shows her talent
she was underused -i think rita hayworth was properly utilized -yes -see the salome dance i uploaded on rita that is a charmer too
The plagues "god" brought against the people of Egypt were to directly contravene the powers of the gods of Egypt. And to show that there was only one god and all others were impotent.
The god of Moses was malevolent. If he was the supreme all knowing creator and the Jews were his chosen people, benevolence would have never let them come into slavery. Benevolence would have simply turned Pharaohs heart.Not killed the Egyptian slave population, crops & livestock, to free his people.
A manifestation of mammary magnificence---so when does Pharoh's daughter (Solomon's most famous wife) show up with a rolling pin lol?
All jokes aside, there was obviously a strong exchange of influence between the ancient Hebrews, Egyptians, and Arabs. One wonders to what extent the Egyptian-influenced mindset of Moses shaped shaped the Hebrew's monotheistic conception of Yahweh, which history has proven to be very influential.
I can't dispute that monotheism has proven to be a very influential dosctrine, but I'm having a little difficulty with the suggestion that Moses was influenced in his development of these ideas (if I understand you correctly) by the Egyptians, a hard-core pantheistic society if ever there was one.
That music is very cool for the 50's! She looks like a TJ dancer, probably made a border run for the film! Thanks for the post I've got to see this flick now!
I find it amusing (and highly ironic) that supposedly tolerant, open-minded liberals are just as sanctimonious and judgmental towards Christian viewpoints as the Christians they scoff at.
Judgemental, yes. Sanctimonious, no. We are judgemental of people who hold superstitious and silly beliefs (eg. Jesus raised the dead, walked on water and himself rose from the dead) and who work hard to persuade others to believe this silliness. This is what we call "magical thinking". Any clear-minded critical thinker rejects this stuff as intellectual poison.
Sanctimonious means "hypocritically pious or devout". We are simply honest, average people who enjoy life and try not to waste it.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO this movie is racist "I WISH I HAD MORE HANDS...SO I COULD GIVE THIS MOVIE 4 THUMBS DOWN". Any movie made at a time where black people couldn't play major roles without any racism is GARBAGE! Just goes to show you how stupid these people were, the Israelites were in the middle of a hot desert with the sun beaming but yet the actors in the movie are all european and pasty white...GIVE ME A BREAK...ABSURD!!!!
OK, You have proved to us that you are a racially tolerant individual, which isn't a real achievment in these politically correct times. However, what you need to keep in mind is that prior to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s EVERYONE was racist - your parents, your grandparents, schoolteachers, judges, lawyers, etc, etc, etc. The exception was only a sensitive minority, mostly intellectuals.
Cut the human race some slack for God's sake. They were products of their times, as you are.
Sure, this is a classic, but now that I see it in detail, it's so forced and, well, corny. The dance is sensuous but awkward... and, near the end, that girl actually leaps into the arms of a man and then starts twisting and crying as if she was being forced! These politically-correct orgies are always an odd thing to watch.
If I were Solomon in this movie I would've gone Old Testament on them. I would have gathered all my soldiers and said: "Execute fifty of them. Drive the rest into the desert with no water or food." Godless heathenry.
I assume you are talking about Ms Gina's "highly seductive" jerky backstroke moves. Grown men are said to have fainted during that bit in 1950s movie theatres.
There is a line in this film often quoted amongst film buffs as one of the most absurd ever penned by a scriptwriter. King Soloman's brother Adonijah [George Sanders] tells him, "You and your Sheban slut have defiled the good name of Egypt!". Mind you, if the queen of Sheba looked as hot Gina Lollabrigida, i would do the same.
And wasn't the Queen of Sheba supposed to be, well, you know. . . BLACK? But at the time this movie was made, even the suggestion of interracial nookie was taboo. Didn't matter if it was from the Bible!
Well, the Bible doesn't say specifically. Besides, where was she from? And if you say Egypt, bear in mind that Anwar Sadat was black but Jehan Sadat wasn't.
I strongly recommend the Wikipedia article on "Sheba", which indicates that scholars and holy scripts of two different traditions, Christian and Muslim, are unable to agree exactly where this nation is located. It might be in southern Arabia or it might be on the horn of Africa, possible Ethiopia or Eritrea.
In other words, it is erroneous to say that "the Queen of Sheba was black", because we simply don't know.
Interesting topic. The land of Sheba could have been the Yemen or somewhere in North Africa, but traditionally it was definitely Ethiopia. To this day, Ethiopian Christians claim to be descended from the Queen of Sheba, as do Rastafarians. She's also traditionally assumed to be the bride in the Song of Solomon, where it says in chapter 1, verse 5, "I am black but comely."
BTW, the translation "black BUT comely" (nigra sum sed formosa), rather than "black AND comely," first appears in the Latin Vulgate Bible of 400 A.D. Sheba (if, indeed, she is the bride in the Song of Solomon) is now comely (attractive) DESPITE being black. Where African Christians celebrated Sheba's (alleged) color, European Christianity gradually marginalized and tried to forget it.
In any case, no one knows for certain whether the Queen of Sheba even existed, which makes her ethnicity moot.
Uh, exqueeze me, but there are no Christians in this movie, sanctimonious or otherwise. The period of King Solomon was about 1000 years before Christ.
I just re-edited my comment after reading yours to capture the sense I was originally tryng to convey, but obviously missed. I was talking about contemporary sanctimonious Christians, who, if I'm not mistaken, are big fans of fire and brimstone of either Testament.
Yes, your meaning is clearer now, thank you. Ah, the grand Hollywood Biblical tradition established by C.B. De Mille and copied up to the 1960s. He figured the best way to warn audiences against sin and depravity was to show as much of it as possible! Preferably with a lot of gyrating half-naked women.
Yul Brynner wore a wig in this picture so his scenes could be matched with long shots of Tyrone Power, the film's original star and producer. Power died of a heart attack during production and Brynner was re-cast as Solomon. All Tyrone Power's scenes had to be reshot.
Gina Lollobrigida c'est magnifique.
iliyanmk 5 months ago in playlist Altri video di pwgr2000 2
Pagan worship is way better :P
TheZachary86 5 months ago
Hmmm....kinda tame for a fertility dance. I expected more sensuality of Lollobridga but she still is beautiful.
kairi3177 9 months ago 2
Reminds of of the Party Scene from Matrix: Reloaded... makes me question The Matrix's originality. Hmm
TheWhiteWren 10 months ago
Pagani nos scivimus quo modo orgiae fierentur.
impCaesarAvg 1 year ago
ユル。毛が生えてる！
yz50131 1 year ago
I see the moves that Beyonce copied in the "Baby Boy" video and Britney Spears copied in "Slave for you."
FeliciaGriffin1 1 year ago
It looks alot like a Janet Jackson video
maximilian333 2 years ago 10
Honestly I didn't find her dancing all that seductive. "walking like an egyptian" is more seductive than this dance to me. Frankly the whole arm movement thing is the big put off for me.
DEATHBYFLYINGCDS 2 years ago 3
This is extremely rare to see a bared navel in films of this period. If you look closely it appears that they've placed a jewel in her navel. They frequently resorted to that to please the censors of the day, who considered a naked female navel to be too provocative for the screen.
GDR352 2 years ago
Lemon cheesecake is very tasty, like it with a coffee.
Don't like plaine cheesecake, no taste.
MRMILO57 2 years ago
de la pelicula salomon y la reina de saba rodada en españa. tyron power murio durante el rodaje de un ataque al corazon siendo sustituido por yul brynner como salomon, la lollo fue la reina de saba, george sanders el tercero de la funcion
sabubuyanoviveaqui 3 years ago
thank you so much for posting this! it rox sox
muaythai101 3 years ago
And that's what caused Yul Brynner to go bald. (It was worth it..)
wordzly 3 years ago
the similar scenes in prodigal with lana turner are better
watch them
thx for upload
jbz7879 3 years ago
I hope to have a clip of the Lana Turner dance from "The Prodigal" (1955) uploaded to Youtube in a few weeks. Then everyone can decide for themselves whether your statement is accurate or not. Personally, I'm a little dubious.
But, many thanks for suggesting it.
pwgr2000 3 years ago
oh u r indeed welcome -i have it on dvd but whenever i upload these erotcas yt says inappropriate
lolz
i uploaded sex and lucia 2 days ago -the clip received 100 views in 5 minutes and then it was blocked
and i am on probation so i am uploading beign indian vids and check my fellini roma opera
it is a great pastiche
u will love it
lolz
jbz7879 3 years ago
Hi. I just watched "The Prodigal" through from beginning to end and there was no erotic dance by Lana Turner in the print I got. I guess it's possible that it was cut out. Can you please have a look at your DVD and give me the point in the film, in hours and minutes, where this supposed dance takes place.
Ms Turner wears a more revealing and much sexier, very leggy outfit while Ms Lollobrigida wears a long, floor-length skirt. A Cheescake Dance in that outfit would have been incedible.
pwgr2000 3 years ago
let me find it -i am uploading another trove these days
i shall let you know soon
if my memory is right it happens as the man stud offers himself as a sacrifice to the godess before he throws himself from the altar
i told you turner iis a head turner now u agree
they did make about 3 versions of it becoz of the censor troubles
there are 2 dances one is before where hepurdom sees her worship
what do u think of my lolo dance with rock hudson from cs
jbz7879 3 years ago
It definitely looks like I've got one of the censored version coz there isn't a dance in the whole thing, much less TWO! It's a shame coz it's a gorgeous print, and comes with the trailer and a full commentary by a film historian.
I thought Rock looked a little stiff and jerky in that dance number. He certainly didn't have Lola's smooth and fluid movements.
Just a warning on your "texting" style abbreviations. I had no idea what cs was until I found the clip by searching "rock hudson".
pwgr2000 3 years ago
i recorded this version from i have from tcm a few years ago -one dance is in the festival of virgins with turner not partaking where al the other priestesses dance for a short time ,
rock cannot match lolo at all she has a figure and supple movements to drive one insane -even the dance i uploaded from hunchback of notre dame shows her talent
she was underused -i think rita hayworth was properly utilized -yes -see the salome dance i uploaded on rita that is a charmer too
jbz7879 3 years ago
Can you please give me some details about the version you have of "The Prodigal" on DVD. Was it recorded from TV or a commercial release?
pwgr2000 3 years ago
its from tcm version a few ytears ago
jbz7879 3 years ago
Would you mind sending me a copy so that I might realise my dream of uploading the Lana Turner dance as part of my Cheesecake Dance series?
pwgr2000 3 years ago
The plagues "god" brought against the people of Egypt were to directly contravene the powers of the gods of Egypt. And to show that there was only one god and all others were impotent.
The god of Moses was malevolent. If he was the supreme all knowing creator and the Jews were his chosen people, benevolence would have never let them come into slavery. Benevolence would have simply turned Pharaohs heart.Not killed the Egyptian slave population, crops & livestock, to free his people.
fuzzygoddess 3 years ago
How come I never get invited to parties like this one?
Suchiibenchan 3 years ago
Maybe your church group is too conservative.
pwgr2000 3 years ago
A manifestation of mammary magnificence---so when does Pharoh's daughter (Solomon's most famous wife) show up with a rolling pin lol?
All jokes aside, there was obviously a strong exchange of influence between the ancient Hebrews, Egyptians, and Arabs. One wonders to what extent the Egyptian-influenced mindset of Moses shaped shaped the Hebrew's monotheistic conception of Yahweh, which history has proven to be very influential.
bootleggersouth 3 years ago
I can't dispute that monotheism has proven to be a very influential dosctrine, but I'm having a little difficulty with the suggestion that Moses was influenced in his development of these ideas (if I understand you correctly) by the Egyptians, a hard-core pantheistic society if ever there was one.
pwgr2000 3 years ago
it is thought he got his ideas from a monothestic egyption cult that only worshiped the sun under the pharaoh akenaten
nik69 3 years ago
2:15 - that's one big orgy msohpit
langerhund 3 years ago
Msohpit! Isn't that one of the holy men in the Book of Judges?
pwgr2000 3 years ago
yes, yes it was!
What I meant to say, was Moshpit
langerhund 3 years ago
Wow, didn't recognize Yul Brenner with hair.
markster718 3 years ago
Oh no wonder she's so hot, it's Gina! I love the movies she's in! She's ultra hot!
verbusen 3 years ago
That music is very cool for the 50's! She looks like a TJ dancer, probably made a border run for the film! Thanks for the post I've got to see this flick now!
verbusen 3 years ago
See, if more of Scripture was this fun, the entire world would be Jewish.
Tareltonlives 3 years ago
damn these ancient hebrews;)
Cutedervish 3 years ago
I find it amusing (and highly ironic) that supposedly tolerant, open-minded liberals are just as sanctimonious and judgmental towards Christian viewpoints as the Christians they scoff at.
FilmVintage 3 years ago 6
Judgemental, yes. Sanctimonious, no. We are judgemental of people who hold superstitious and silly beliefs (eg. Jesus raised the dead, walked on water and himself rose from the dead) and who work hard to persuade others to believe this silliness. This is what we call "magical thinking". Any clear-minded critical thinker rejects this stuff as intellectual poison.
Sanctimonious means "hypocritically pious or devout". We are simply honest, average people who enjoy life and try not to waste it.
pwgr2000 3 years ago
That's what I call a party!
terrapyn99 3 years ago 4
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO this movie is racist "I WISH I HAD MORE HANDS...SO I COULD GIVE THIS MOVIE 4 THUMBS DOWN". Any movie made at a time where black people couldn't play major roles without any racism is GARBAGE! Just goes to show you how stupid these people were, the Israelites were in the middle of a hot desert with the sun beaming but yet the actors in the movie are all european and pasty white...GIVE ME A BREAK...ABSURD!!!!
JustJared22 3 years ago
OK, You have proved to us that you are a racially tolerant individual, which isn't a real achievment in these politically correct times. However, what you need to keep in mind is that prior to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s EVERYONE was racist - your parents, your grandparents, schoolteachers, judges, lawyers, etc, etc, etc. The exception was only a sensitive minority, mostly intellectuals.
Cut the human race some slack for God's sake. They were products of their times, as you are.
pwgr2000 3 years ago
lol, nice response
hanniballecturer 3 years ago 4
AAhhhhhh, a voice of sanity. Well said and true on all counts.
Longfellow10 3 years ago 2
this is a great piece of film....lol and yes this woman is absurdly hot.!!!
realistromeo 3 years ago 2
Love or hate - your choice ;-)
unifiedfield 3 years ago
Sure, this is a classic, but now that I see it in detail, it's so forced and, well, corny. The dance is sensuous but awkward... and, near the end, that girl actually leaps into the arms of a man and then starts twisting and crying as if she was being forced! These politically-correct orgies are always an odd thing to watch.
LGAbbadie 3 years ago
If I were Solomon in this movie I would've gone Old Testament on them. I would have gathered all my soldiers and said: "Execute fifty of them. Drive the rest into the desert with no water or food." Godless heathenry.
hollywoodwerewolf 3 years ago
1.07 is so daggy! lmao
thegr8st 3 years ago
I assume you are talking about Ms Gina's "highly seductive" jerky backstroke moves. Grown men are said to have fainted during that bit in 1950s movie theatres.
pwgr2000 3 years ago
There is a line in this film often quoted amongst film buffs as one of the most absurd ever penned by a scriptwriter. King Soloman's brother Adonijah [George Sanders] tells him, "You and your Sheban slut have defiled the good name of Egypt!". Mind you, if the queen of Sheba looked as hot Gina Lollabrigida, i would do the same.
hotwok19 3 years ago
I prefer a bald Yul Brynner
bambibunny 3 years ago
I think Yul looked very handsome with or without hair
sugarpearl 3 years ago
And wasn't the Queen of Sheba supposed to be, well, you know. . . BLACK? But at the time this movie was made, even the suggestion of interracial nookie was taboo. Didn't matter if it was from the Bible!
scotpens 4 years ago
Well, the Bible doesn't say specifically. Besides, where was she from? And if you say Egypt, bear in mind that Anwar Sadat was black but Jehan Sadat wasn't.
A1l2l2e2n4 4 years ago
I strongly recommend the Wikipedia article on "Sheba", which indicates that scholars and holy scripts of two different traditions, Christian and Muslim, are unable to agree exactly where this nation is located. It might be in southern Arabia or it might be on the horn of Africa, possible Ethiopia or Eritrea.
In other words, it is erroneous to say that "the Queen of Sheba was black", because we simply don't know.
pwgr2000 4 years ago
Interesting topic. The land of Sheba could have been the Yemen or somewhere in North Africa, but traditionally it was definitely Ethiopia. To this day, Ethiopian Christians claim to be descended from the Queen of Sheba, as do Rastafarians. She's also traditionally assumed to be the bride in the Song of Solomon, where it says in chapter 1, verse 5, "I am black but comely."
scotpens 3 years ago
BTW, the translation "black BUT comely" (nigra sum sed formosa), rather than "black AND comely," first appears in the Latin Vulgate Bible of 400 A.D. Sheba (if, indeed, she is the bride in the Song of Solomon) is now comely (attractive) DESPITE being black. Where African Christians celebrated Sheba's (alleged) color, European Christianity gradually marginalized and tried to forget it.
In any case, no one knows for certain whether the Queen of Sheba even existed, which makes her ethnicity moot.
scotpens 3 years ago
OMG, it's Yul Brynner with hair!
Uh, exqueeze me, but there are no Christians in this movie, sanctimonious or otherwise. The period of King Solomon was about 1000 years before Christ.
scotpens 4 years ago 2
I just re-edited my comment after reading yours to capture the sense I was originally tryng to convey, but obviously missed. I was talking about contemporary sanctimonious Christians, who, if I'm not mistaken, are big fans of fire and brimstone of either Testament.
pwgr2000 4 years ago
Yes, your meaning is clearer now, thank you. Ah, the grand Hollywood Biblical tradition established by C.B. De Mille and copied up to the 1960s. He figured the best way to warn audiences against sin and depravity was to show as much of it as possible! Preferably with a lot of gyrating half-naked women.
scotpens 4 years ago 3
Yul Brynner wore a wig in this picture so his scenes could be matched with long shots of Tyrone Power, the film's original star and producer. Power died of a heart attack during production and Brynner was re-cast as Solomon. All Tyrone Power's scenes had to be reshot.
scotpens 3 years ago 2
i kinda do like some of the fitiness wimmen of nowheredays. but these fities wimmens had a lot of fit women that peeple forgot about to
biggin105 4 years ago