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Salome's Last Dance

Period & History • Comedy, Crime, R

It is 1892, and Oscar Wilde (Nickolas Grace) is enjoying the company of his lover, Bosey, and other young men in a brothel. While he does so, workers put on an elaborate production of Wilde's banned play, Salome. In the play, King Herod begs his stepdaughter to dance for him, however, her mother refuses, appalled by Herod's lust.

Tags
Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900), Theatre, Performance
Cast
Glenda Jackson Herodias/Lady Alice
Stratford Johns Herod/Alfred Taylor
Nickolas Grace Oscar Wilde
Douglas Hodge John the Baptist/Lord Alfred Douglas
Crew
Ken Russell director

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