Salomé (1922 film)
1923 film by Charles Bryant / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Salomé is a 1922-23 American silent drama film directed by Charles Bryant and Alla Nazimova,[1] who also stars. It is an adaptation of the 1891 Oscar Wilde play of the same name. The play itself is a loose retelling of the biblical story of King Herod and his execution of John the Baptist (here, as in Wilde's play, called Jokanaan) at the request of Herod's stepdaughter, Salomé, whom he lusts after.
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Directed by | Alla Nazimova Charles Bryant |
Written by | Natacha Rambova |
Based on | Salome (play) by Oscar Wilde |
Produced by | Alla Nazimova |
Starring | Alla Nazimova Mitchell Lewis Rose Dione Earl Schenck Arthur Jasmine Nigel De Brulier Frederick Peters Louis Dumar |
Cinematography | Charles Van Enger |
Distributed by | Nazimova Productions |
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Running time | 74 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Budget | $350,000 |
Salomé is often called one of the first art films to be made in the United States.[2] The highly stylized costumes, exaggerated acting, minimal sets, and absence of all but the most necessary props make for a screen image much more focused on atmosphere and on conveying a sense of the characters' individual heightened desires than on conventional plot development.