Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)

Stewart Granger: Lot

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• Ildith : Evil? How strange you are. Where I come from, nothing is evil. Everything that gives pleasure is good!

  Lot : Where do you come from?

  Ildith : There, not far, just ahead - Sodom and Gomorrah.

• Queen Bera : It is our pleasure - to give you pleasure. So, let us make you - comfortable.

  Lot : You're wasting your time. I didn't come here to be drowned in wine and smothered in cushions.

• Lot : Where there's water, there's also danger.

• Ildith : It is a secret as old as my city. When one is overcome by weakness from the sun's heat, one needs salt. Unfortunately, I traded all mine for - for those slaves you see. I bought them for the Queen. They're worth four times their weight in salt.

  Lot : Poor creatures.

  Ildith : Am I a poor creature too? Does your heart - ache for me? I'm a slave too. Chief of the Queen's body slaves.

  Lot : For one human to own another is wrong. Evil!

• Lot : Ah, my two, fine courageous daughters. Our long pilgrimage is finally over.

• Lot : You warn our people not to drink too much, huh?

• Lot : Women wear clothes to shelter them from the sun and from the cold.

  Ildith : That explains the fit. You - you Hebrews confuse clothes with tents!

  Lot : Oh, yes, they're loose. That's to leave the limbs free to work.

  Ildith : What work?

  Lot : A women's work. To cook, to spin, to clean, to follow the harvesters.

• Lot : What hideous place is this? What dreadful blasphemy. Dead and dying men. White bones under the Lord's bright sky and His sweet sun.

• Lot : To work is the price of freedom. To support your own needs. To be able to determine how and where you'll work. To - to own yourself.

• Lot : We have no need to fear the Sodomites.

• Lot : You confuse me with my office. Lot, the leader of the tribe, would never do this, that and the other; so, of course, neither would Lot the man. Well, now here is Lot the man. His heart is pounding like an idiot boy. He didn't set out for his tent, but, his legs brought him here.

• Lot : What is my being a good man got to do with me being here, with you, in my own tent?

  Ildith : Please, Lot. Please.

  Lot : Is it because you think that I'm a good man and that you're not a good woman? Is that it? Because you once lived in Sodom?

• Ishmael : They change us more than we change them. Their evil infects us! Look around you. Your clothes. This food. This house!

  Ildith : We live in a nicer place because the elders wish us to. Lot's the leader of a prosperous people.

  Ishmael : And Shuah who paints her face, who is never home. And my own Maleb, who avoids my eyes.

  Lot : Is this true?

  Ildith : Shuah passes her time as all those of her own age do. And as for Maleb, if you gave her as much thought as you do the mine slaves, there would be no trouble between you two.

  Ishmael : How can you judge innocence, who have none!

• Lot : We are in Sodom to win the people over to decency.

• Ishmael : Why do we live here?

  Lot : You still will not understand. As we grow in the esteem of the Sodomites, a time will come when we can attain by law all that we wish. By law!

• Ishmael : It can't go on like this!

  Lot : You mean, create an open breach with the Sodomites?

• Lot : I sinned - and then in my pride I thought to punish myself. Now I know, there is another who will punish me in his own time.

• Lot : Hear me! Hear me! As I was told, so now I tell you. Once we leave these cities, if there are those among us who look back, only so much as look back, mind you, then Jehovah will know that we do so in regret for the ways of Sodom and He will smite us! No one look back. No one!

• Lot : Don't look back! Don't look back! Keep going!

• Lot : Separate... but in their full view...