First, stage actress and early screen star Alla Nazimova plays the title role of "Salomé" in this highly stylized treatment of Oscar Wilde's play, as the Biblical temptress whose spurned affections for John the Baptist led to her lusty dance for stepfather King Herod and John's losing his head. With Rose Dione, Mitchell Lewis.
Also includes "Lot in Sodom" (1933), a sensual depiction of the Sodom and Gomorrah story packed with half-naked bodies and a stunning climax depicting the fall of the city devoted to sin. Friedrich Haak, Hildegarde Watson star.
101 min. total. Standard; Soundtrack: music score. Silent with music score.
First, stage actress and early screen star Alla Nazimova plays the title role of "Salomé" in this highly stylized treatment of Oscar Wilde's play, as the Biblical temptress whose spurned affections for John the Baptist led to her lusty dance for stepfather King Herod and John's losing his head. With Rose Dione, Mitchell Lewis.
Also includes "Lot in Sodom" (1933), a sensual depiction of the Sodom and Gomorrah story packed with half-naked bodies and a stunning climax depicting the fall of the city devoted to sin. Friedrich Haak, Hildegarde Watson star.
101 min. total. Standard; Soundtrack: music score. Silent with music score.
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