1959: Journey to the Lost City

DEBRA PAGET

The Tiger of Bengal...

The Indian Tomb...

Seetha must charm the big snake...

Don't know about your snake, but she certainly is charming...

The snake's thinking about finding a new basket to live in...

This guy's wishing he were the snake...

Have a feeling things would have turned out differently in the Garden of Eden if Seetha was there...

Debra Paget had a number of wicked dances during her career, but nothing tops this... It's up there as one of the most erotic dances ever committed to film in certainly the most ingeniously barest of costumes, rivaling Sally Forrest in Son of Sinbad and Jane Russell in The French Line... The near-nakedness of her, combined with her symbolic movements as she entices the snake, catapults this to an Iconic level, as the dance itself is steeped in Hindu mythology, summoning the cosmic power of life and death's dance... All dance mimics the sexual act... This dance embodies the fundamental creative act of the universe... For this reason, the performance/role transcends all WOmWAm archetypes and fetishes, entering a realm that can only be understood in a state of nirvana...