It may have been a favor to her husband but he was not running MGM at the time. At the time 4 Horsemen Of The Apocalypse was made, Joseph Vogel was the president of MGM and Sol Siegel was head of production, not Ms. Lansbury's husband Peter Shaw. Mr. Shaw came to MGM in 1964 as an assistant head...
I received my copy of Sodom And Gomorrah today and scanned both the short and long versions. I don't think it has been mentioned but the short version has Rozsa's exit music but the long version does not.
Hopefully, if they do a blu ray, it will have an English track (or at least English subs) unlike their DVD which is in German only with no English subs.
The horror! :lol: Newman was wise to turn it down. Newman is such a contemporary actor that he seems out of place in ancient Jerusalem, Egypt, Rome or Greece and with those legs looks ridiculous in those togas and leather mini skirts! Heston on the other hand was made for the genre as he proved...
It's winging its way from Germany to me even as I type. I did have a legit Spanish DVD release but unfortunately the Spanish subtitles were not removable. Very much looking forward to this.