Salome (Silent)
An erotic and highly-stylized retelling of Salome's request for the head of John the Baptist.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 1 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: July 31, 2012
- Originally Released: 1922
- Label: Alpha Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Alla Nazimova, Mitchell Lewis, Nigel De Brulier, Earl Schenck & Rose Dione | |
Directed by | Charles Bryant | |
Director of Photography: | Charles Van Enger |
Entertainment Reviews:
Most of the movie is a big buildup to Salomé's dance, basically an absurd little gavotte despite the presence of a clownishly excited Herod and a squad of capering dwarfs.
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Village Voice
As the reader has noticed, this film bores me. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Cine-Mundial
Picturesquely it is very pretty as to lightings, setting and photography, but there ends about all that can be said in praise.
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Variety
You see an exceedingly tame and not remarkably graceful performance that Herod wouldn't have given standing room in his kingdom for.
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New York Times
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.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
Salomé's reputation for practically inventing camp proves its least interesting aspect.
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The Arts Desk
Though the direction is attributed to Charles Bryant, the auteur was clearly Nazimova, with Natacha Rambova patterning the set and costumes after the Aubrey Beardsley illustrations that accompanied one edition of the play.
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Chicago Reader
Description by OLDIES.com:
Screen siren Alla Nazimova heats up the screen with sexuality and lust as Oscar Wilde's classic play, Salome, is hauntingly brought to life in director Charles Bryant's 1923 motion picture production. Although 42 years of age when she played the teenage temptress, Nazimova's highly stylized performance is now considered a classic. The striking set designs which evoke Aubrey Beardsley illustrations, are the work of art director Natacha Rambova, notorious for her incendiary marriage to Rudolph Valentino. Hollywood legend surrounds this production such as the unproven rumor that the Nazimova and her art director insisted on an entirely gay cast and crew. Although greeted with scandal and box office failure when it was finally released, its aesthetic and historic significance earmarked it for preservation by The Library Of Congress in the year 2000.
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Product Description:
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 (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.
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- Sales Rank: 787
- UPC: 089218681799
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