Rotten
Picturesquely it is very pretty as to lightings, setting and photography, but there ends about all that can be said in praise.
Variety Staff, Variety
Overview
Based on Oscar Wilde's play, the films tells the story of how Salomé agrees to dance for King Herod in return for the head of John the Baptist.
Director and cast
- Charles Bryant Director
- Alla Nazimova as Salomé
- Mitchell Lewis as Herod, Tetrarch of Judea
- Rose Dione as Herodias, wife of Herod
- Earl Schenck as Narraboth, Captain of the Guard
- Louis Dumar as Tigellinus
- Frederick Peters as Naaman, the Executioner
- Nigel De Brulier as Jokaanan, the Prophet
- Arthur Jasmine as Page of Herodias
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
60%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Most of the movie is a big buildup to Salome's dance, basically an absurd little gavotte despite the presence of a clownishly excited Herod and a squad of capering dwarfs.
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
Fresh
Despite careful stylisation and exquisite photography, this adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play boasts a healthy streak of vulgarity of which Wilde, one suspects, would have secretly approved.
Time Out
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