PLEASE READ THIS - This clip consists of three dance numbers - two short and one long - from "The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah" (1962). The film was directed by Robert Aldrich, who also directed "Vera Cruz" (1954), with Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster; "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962), with Bette Davis and Joan Crawford; and "The Dirty Dozen" (1967), with Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson.

Stewart Granger played Lot, the nephew of Abraham, who fled, with his wife and two daughters, from the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah before they were destroyed by Jehovah; the lovely Pier Angeli played Ildith, Lot's wife, who is turned into a pillar of sodium chloride because she disobeyed the Lord's instructions and looked back at the cities as they were being destroyed (Oy vey!); Stanley Baker played Astaroth, the ambitious brother of Queen Bera of Sodom; Anouk Aimée played the cruel Queen Bera; Rossana Podestà played Lot's daughter Shuah, who falls for Astaroth; and the incoherent Scilla Gabel played Tamar, the slave girl. The principal dancer in the bellydance/catgirl sequence is Mitsuko Takara. The two dancers in the lesbianesque duo number are Alice and Ellen Kessler, better known as "The Kessler Twins", a famous German singing/dancing/acting duo. There are many clips of them performing on Youtube.

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