It was made for MGM's British division and cast Christie as the beleaguered heroine and Bates, Peter Finch, and Terence Stamp as the trio of men who try to worship, abase, or simply possess her.
Even Callisthenes, historian and nephew of Aristotle, whose ostentatious flattery had perhaps encouraged Alexander to see himself in the role of a god, refused to abase himself.
When the reporter wrote to Abase to tell her of the attack, they said: "Sis it's going mental here.
Abase revealed her role as an active recruiter for Isis, giving the reporter advice of how to travel to Syria, how to conceal the plan to their parents in the UK, and of what conditions to give to a jihadist before becoming their wife.
"If we knew, this wouldn't have happened," Abase Hussein, father of Amira, added.
Abase was one of three British schoolgirls from east London to flee to Syria in February.
Abase recommended to the reporter that they marry a fighter, and make conditions such as being able to attend school or go to work as part of the union, and asked whether they would mind being a "second wife".
Abase Hussen, and the rest of the families, are adamant that there were no signs that their daughters were plotting.
The interviewer, solemn-faced, hush-voiced, now offered Artie a chance to abase himself.
He achieved unprecedented autonomy, refusing to abase himself before aristocratic patrons even as he took their money.
