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Alla Nazimova, Rose Dione, Mitchell Lewis, Nigel De Brulier, Earl Schenck ... see more see more... , Frederick Peters , Louis Dumar , Arthur Jasmine

Seeking to bring High Art to the American hinterlands, silent film star Alla Nazimova sank a great deal of her own money into her 1922 adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Salome. Art director Natacha Rambova ... read more read more...(notorious as the contentious second wife of Rudolph Valentino) based her set designs on the works of fin-de-siecle artist Aubrey Beardsley. The story remains as always: Salome is coerced by her mother Herodias (Rose Dione) to demand the head of John the Baptist on a platter. She performs an erotic dance around the head, then is crushed to death by Herod's guards. Legend has it that everyone in the supporting cast and production crew of Salome was homosexual--hand-picked by Nazimova, who reportedly believed that only a gay aggregation could do full justice to her bizarre, excruciatingly stylized cinematic vision. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Unrated, 54 min.

Directed by: Charles Bryant

Release Date: January 1, 1922

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  • rubystevens
    February 16, 2012
    rubystevens
    tres avant-garde but really fascinating... if you're into silent films, that is. the art direction by valentino's wife, natacha rambova, is remarkable and meant to reflect aubrey beardsley's illustrations for wilde's play. the notorious nazimova is a bit over the top but in thi... read mores extreme setting it mostly works. this was her own production and she was already well into her 40s when she played the teenage salome, but she's quite convincing, except maybe in close-up. the film was roundly condemned and was a huge flop and nazimova lost a fortune and soon returned to broadway. the whole film is on youtube here >http://youtu.be/LDaZNqag8uQ
  • jjnxn
    April 4, 2009
    jjnxn
    More of an interesting artifact then a good film. The sets and costumes are impressive the acting for the time was probably condidered emotive and deep but know seems overripe and hammy.
  • flynnparadox
    April 23, 2007
    flynnparadox
    Nazimova was the most mysterious, most alluring and most dynamic of all movie stars and here is her masterwork. The direction may be credited to her "Boston marriage" husband Charles Bryant but the film simply belongs to Nazimova. Every shot without her feels like a prelude to ... read morean enterance for this cinematic Godess. But if that were all this film had then it wouldn't be as memorable as it is. No, this film has something else even more notable. It's the best film version of Oscar Wilde's play. Nazimova's Salome is the most enigmatic of screen heroines/femme fatales. She is clearly the most interesting character on screen and dominates the proceedings. Her dance of the seven veils is brilliant. She cavorts across the screen and her performance is beautiful, sexy, funny and supremely scary when the camera lingers on eerie close-ups of the hideous grin that she wears in that scene. And were there ever eyes that were as haunting, as piercing as Nazimova's in this film? I don't think so. You have to like silent films to really take this film to heart but if you do, then give it a shot. It's one of the best.

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