Solomon and Sheba (1959)

History, Romance

Description

Under the rule of King David, Israel is united and prosperous although surrounded by enemies including Egypt and its allies. The aging King David favors his younger son, Solomon, as his successor, but David's elder son Prince Adonijah, a warrior, declares himself King. When David learns of this, he publicly announces Solomon to be his successor. Adonijah and Joab, his general, withdraw in rage. Israel prospers under King Solomon's wise and benevolent rule and is seen as a threat to more tyrannical monarchs in the region. The Pharaoh of Egypt agrees to cede a Red Sea port to the Queen of Sheba in a plot to undermine Solomon's rule. Sheba is to seduce Solomon and introduce Sheban pagan worship into Jerusalem. Meanwhile, Prince Adonijah, now banished, also conspires with Pharaoh and is given an army to defeat Solomon. The film is a highly fictionalized dramatization of events depicted in The Bible -- First Kings chapter 10 and Second Chronicles chapter 9.

Casting

George Sanders

Alejandro Rey

Jean Anderson

Yul Brynner

Harry Andrews

Julio Peña

Laurence Naismith

John Crawford

Félix de Pomés

Gina Lollobrigida

Virgilio Teixeira

David Farrar

Jack Gwillim

Claude Dantes

William Devlin

José Nieto

Anne Scott

Finlay Currie

Maruchi Fresno

Marisa Pavan

Crew

Alex Weldon

Winston Ryder

Bernard Vorhaus

Jean Pierre Genet

King Vidor

Léo L. Fuchs

John O'Gorman

Julián Martín

Franco Ferrara

Luis Pérez Espinosa

Ángel Arzuaga

Tyrone Power

Paul Wilson

Otto Ludwig

Eduardo García Maroto

José María Alarcón

Dario Simoni

Eric Seelig

Anthony Veiller

Tadeo Villalba

Terry Yorke

Antonio Bueno

José María Ochoa

Crane Wilbur

Tom Smith

Alfred Sweeney

Anne Box

Noël Howard

Thomas Tuttle

Jeroslav Berger

Robert Goodstein

Norman Wanstall

Mario Nascimbene

Fred Hughesdon

Aubrey Lewis

Freddie Young

Joseph E. Kenney

Neil Binney

Elaine Schreyeck

Willy Kemplen

Ted Richmond

Richard McWhorter

David Hildyard

John von Kotze

Ralph Jester

Malcolm Arnold

Richard Day

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Solomon and Sheba (1959)

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