Rita Hayworth is SALOME
Rita doing the dance of the seven veils. Not a bad film but it's a typical Columbia Pictures production, which today sorta looks like a TV production. The script and direction are good but not great. The cast IS amazing (Charles Laughton, Judith Anderson, Stewart Granger, etc). It is entertaining (and shorter than THE TEN COMMANDMENTS) but with a bigger budget and script, this could have been great.
I agree this is a pretty good Peplum (Leonard Maltin's rating is 2.5 stars). However, in this version of Biblical tale Salome actually wants to save John the Baptist rather than get him decapitated.
ReplyDeleteNaturally this is very different from the usual approach (Oscar Wilde and Ricard Strauss).