UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Kirpianuscus the first temptation is to criticize it. very hard. and it is the normal reaction. because the film has potential and the right cast. but for director seems be more seductive the easy way. the dance of Rita Hayworth, the sketch of the force of Charles Laughton, Judith Anderson in a role as game of stereotypes. the result - not the best. after decades, it is not a real sin and it is a wise option to see it as piece from a long chain of religious/historical films from the "50. but the case of "Salome" remains different. for the simple motif than it is not an ordinary film from the "50. and only way to discover it out of not inspired solution of script or director vision is ... to imagine it.

sports7272 The things that you're liable to read in the bible it ain't necessarily so.Does anyone really believe what it says in the bible?And for that matter who cares?Films are made as entertainment,not documentaries of fact So Rita Hayworth is past her best,but 10th rate Rita is better than first rate any actress can achieve today.The film is worth watching as a colourful spectacle,especially the dance of the seven veils.What Jean Louis can do with a few saris and a few thousand yards of silk deserves an Oscar.

TheLittleSongbird Salome certainly isn't a terrible film, far from it. But I do think, as a biblical epic it is flawed in many ways. The costumes and the scenery were a joy to the eyes, and the music was beautiful and a treat to the ears. The acting is pretty good too, with Stewart Granger handsome in his role, and Judith Anderson deliciously cruel as Herodias, though Anderson to be fair has given better performances in classics like And Then There Were None and Rebecca. Charles Laughton gives one of his career's weakest performances, but he is good as King Herod to some extent. The film's portrayal of John the Baptist from Alan Badel was also fine, but Salome's creme de la creme is Rita Hayworth in the title role. Entirely captivating and so beautiful, and she danced beautifully in Dance of the Seven Veils which also happens to be a scene from Richard Strauss's opera of the same name. However, the film's flaws include pedestrian pacing, an underdeveloped script and a story that suffers from a lot of tampering. Overall, deeply flawed, but watchable biblical film, that is worth watching if only for Hayworth and Dance of the Seven Veils. 6/10 Bethany Cox

Chris I disliked this movie very. There are several reasons why. First of all I didn't expected a historical accurate drama cause we all know most Hollywood Productions round this time are light weighted entertainment. There is no historical accuracy in that movie. Scenery and Equipment are looking like an Aladdin Adventure of 1001 Arabian Nights. Maybe round this time everybody was wearing colorful dresses and also the places where the people lived where full of different colors. To sum it up I don't know how they people lived round that time but I never got the feeling that this was the way I saw here. Maybe in other Movies like Quo Vadis or The Robe weren't also very accurate but I have to say I never cared of something like that in those great Movies. One of the reasons is simple because the actors who played Nero (Peter Ustinov) and Caligula (Jay Robinson) were convincing in their roles. I can not say the same thing about Charles Laughton as King Herod. To see him all the time eye rolling, working with his eye browse and grimacing was annoying. I don't know why he overacted in all his scenes. In a different category is Stewart Granger. He looks like if he were sleepwalking all the time. Hey, wake up you just fall in love with one of the most attractive women ever lived on planet Earth: Rita Hayworth. Oh yes she is beautiful and the camera has all the focus on her. It's her movie and we see for that time some half naked scenes with her. In my Opinion that's one of the problems of the movie. The story and the lines people are talking seemed to be irrelevant all are focusing on the beauty of Rita. Everybody who loves beautiful women can understand King Herod starring at her all the time. For me the movie is boring because in a way you wait the whole movie for the famous (but very irrelevant) scene with Salome.That's a shame cause the Story round John the Baptist is a really interesting one and I don't know why the filmmakers didn't allowed John the Baptist to baptize at least one single person in this movie. He looks like to be an angry agitator and not like a prophet. From one moment to another Stewart Grangers character became an aficionado about the so called new religion. We never find it out through the whole Movie why. His character as Commander Claudius seems so unimportant and boring that the audience not really cares about him .An other negative point about this movie is that they tried to ignore religion. I cannot understand that because this movie is about a story told in the bible and one of the most important prophets ever. The filmmakers also tried to include Jesus somehow in the story. Didn't these people read the bible? What I cannot understand is the denial of Jewry round the period of Herod. I mean it looked like the whole movie if they hadn't any religion or something like a pagan religion round that period. I wouldn't call this movie shows Anti-Semitism but it has tendency to do so.To sum it up: boring characters next to Salome (and her character is annoying too), overacting of Charles Laughton, sleepwalking of Stewart Granger and denying of historical facts and religion for lightweight entertainment. The focus is clearly on the attraction of Rita. She is the best of the movie but that's not enough for 103 Minutes.