The Prodigal Quotes

The Prodigal is a TV program that first aired in 1970 . The Prodigal completed its run in 1970.

It features Charles Schnee as producer, Bronislau Kaper in charge of musical score, and Joseph Ruttenberg as head of cinematography.

The Prodigal is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Prodigal is 112 minutes long. The Prodigal is distributed by MGM.

The cast includes: Edmund Purdom as Micah, Louis Calhern as Nahreeb, Joseph Wiseman as Carmish, Audrey Dalton as Ruth, and Lana Turner as Samarra.

The Prodigal Quotes

Joseph Wiseman as Carmish

• (Joseph Wiseman) "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?"

Edmund Purdom as Micah

• (Edmund Purdom) "If she did come, I would tell her that what cannot be forgotten can sometimes be forgiven."

• (Edmund Purdom) "Nahreeb, you said that everything has its price."
• (Louis Calhern) "She is not for a follower of Jehovah."
• (Edmund Purdom) "I mean to have her one way or the other."

• (Edmund Purdom) "I would rather be a servant in my father's house than king in Damascus."

• (Edmund Purdom) "Sometimes, Asham, a man must make a little trouble."

• (Edmund Purdom) "Asham. I've drunk deep of every wine from here to Petra, and I've had my full share of women. Yet I'm behaving like a beardless boy panting for the first forbidden fruit that he sees. A priestess who worships a painted graven image. But she's in my blood."

Lana Turner as Samarra

• (Lana Turner) "A high priestess cries the day she is born and never again in her lifetime."

• (Lana Turner) "The women in the wheel are the pick of the market. Did you not notice how superb were the haunches of the Grecian woman and how the lips of the Egyptian parted when she looked at any man?"

Louis Calhern as Nahreeb

• (Louis Calhern) "Damacus has dealt generously with you. Even your slave has a slave."

• (Louis Calhern) "I'll break his body and what he calls his soul."

Audrey Dalton as Ruth

• (Audrey Dalton) "A woman always knows more than her man thinks."

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