In the 1950s films with Biblical themes were very popular. Enduring a number of difficulties, Micah finally realizes where he belongs and returns home to his father, who forgives Micah all of his sins and orders a lavish celebration of his return. There Samarra seduces him into losing his inheritance and betraying his religious faith. He demands that his father give him his inheritance and journeys to the city of Damascus.
Micah, a young Hebrew farm boy, sees Samarra and says he will have her. The story is loosely based on Jesus Christ's parable of the prodigal son, from the Gospel According to Luke 15:11-32, although considerable liberties are taken with the source material, chief among them being the addition of a female lead in the form of the high priestess of Astarte, Samarra. Out of these times comes our story, based upon the Parable of the Prodigal Son as told in Luke, Chapter 15. In exchange, they demanded of their believers the sacrifice of money, jewelry and human life. They were supposed to renew the fertility of the earth every year. Of these, two of the most notorious were Baal and Astarte, the male and the female. It was mainly the believers in Jehovah who stood against a multitude of some 65,000 strange and different gods. In the times before Christianity, only a few people believed in one God.
Dancer Taina Elg made her film debut in The Prodigal. The film also features James Mitchell, Louis Calhern, Joseph Wiseman, Cecil Kellaway, Audrey Dalton, and Walter Hampden. It was based on the New Testament parable about a selfish son who leaves his family to pursue a life of pleasure. The Prodigal is a 1955 Eastmancolor biblical epic CinemaScope film made by MGM starring Lana Turner and Edmund Purdom.
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