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The Prodigal (1955) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Charles Schnee.

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Ruth: A woman always knows more than her man thinks.


Micah: [referring to his first sight of Samarra] Nahreeb, you said that everything has its price.
Nahreeb: She is not for a follower of Jehovah!
Micah: I mean to have her one way or the other!


Carmish: You're a stranger in Damascus. I can tell by your beard. And what each stranger hungers to see first is the Tinted Wall. Only a stone's throw away, the Tinted Wall! Let Carmish take you, for as Carmish is known to say, grab hold of the day - who knows if the night will ever come?


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Ava Gardner and Vittorio Gassman were originally cast as Edmund Purdom's co-stars.
Jazz performer and arranger Melba Liston has an uncredited role as a servant woman.
This was Lana Turner's first movie in CinemaScope.
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