Salome s'inspira en la figura bíblica de la filla del rei Herodes i està protagonitzada per Alla Nazimova, una actriu americana d’origen rus que es va retirar del cinema just després que Salomé fos un gran fracàs. L’estètica del film està influenciada directament pels gravats del polèmic il·lustrador i pintor anglès Aubrey Beardsley.
Yikes, but I wonder what the good old Code would have made of this hugely sexually fluid and charged interpretation of Oscar Wilde's story of the bible's ultimate temptress. It's Alla Nazimova who takes the top billing as she sets her sights on the prophet "Jokaanan" (a shockingly wooden Nigel De Brulier) who sees her as little better than the spawn of Satan. Determined that she isn't going to be...