Review of The Prodigal

. . . that Emmanuel chose to leave out (since the Holy Bible is a family-friendly medium) from the Parable of THE PRODIGAL. It turns out that this wayward dude has a name, and it's "Micah." More startling yet, the Ancient Israelites beat the Amish to the concept of Wilding by a couple millennia. Micah decides to start at the top when the season rolls around for him to sow his wild oats, so he embeds himself with Baal's right-hand gal, High Priestess Samarra. Not one to love them and leave them, Micah then instigates Samarra's stoning over a fiery pit (because instant cremation is a lot more thorough than leaving Nature to take Her course within a bony vulture pit). If a modern-day Hollywood mogul gave a few Tinseltown starlets Micah's Samarra Treatment, he'd never hear the end of it from the ACLU. However, in the 1950s Hollywood respected BOTH Testaments, so this flick ends with a big party to celebrate Samarra's downfall, among other things. Though Micah left "Ruth" at the altar to make his all-out assault upon Samarra, news of Micah's stone-cold lady-killing apparently beats him home, prompting Ruth to welcome back her PRODIGAL with open arms.