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Soprano Goltz whirled, rolled and jumped across the stage as if she were trying to revive her father's old act. As Herod's stepdaughter, she covered more mileage on foot, belly and back than any Salome in memory. But she gave an overpowering impression of the willful, depraved teenager, from her disheveled entrance to her final kisses on the lips of John the Baptist's severed head. Soprano Goltz (a strikingly versatile singer with a repertory of 116 roles, ranging from Musetta to Elektra) is most famous for her appearances in Richard Strauss's operas...
Cullmann has an easy time tracing the movements of Peter until he left Herod's prison in Jerusalem to go, as The Acts of the Apostles unhelpfully has it, "to another place." Catholics say that his final destination was indubitably Rome. They add that St. Peter took the leadership of the church with him, and that he was crucified there during the persecutions of Nero. In 1951, in fact, Pope Pius XII announced that the site of Peter's grave had been definitely located during excavations beneath St. Peter...
...would destroy much of the pleasure in the film to go on identifying the contemporary figures involved. Herod, the king, and Eliza, the prophet, should be no puzzle to the informed student...
Dominican Bruckberger, basing his deductions on a study of early Christian history as well as the Bible, goes further than this. His reconstructed Mary Magdalene was a woman of wealth and beauty, and one of the ornaments of King Herod's court. Although a Jewess, she was Hellenized, and, like many among the upper classes in Palestine, considered herself as belonging to the rich but dying culture of Plato's Greece...
Doubtful as history, Salome is just as dubious as screen entertainment. A turgid multimillion-dollar blend of sex, spectacle and religion, it has been directed with a ponderous touch by William Dieterle. Chewing at the Technicolor scenery are Charles Laughton as a fat, licentious Herod, Judith Anderson as an evilly scheming Herodias, Alan Badel as a weirdly wild-eyed John the Baptist, and Stewart Granger as an intrepid Roman commander. Actress Hayworth does her best in the dance of the seven veils. With choreography by Valerie Bettis, Rita is the very picture of a Galilean glamour girl...