This is one of those rare films were the actor 'introduced' in the credits actually went on to a long and distinguished career: Alan Badel as John the Baptist. But Stewart Granger - reunited here with his co-star from 'Caesar and Cleopatra' Basil Sydney (as Pontus Pilate) - significantly doesn't even mention this in his autobiography.
Nazimova and Ludmilla Tcherina were both in their forties when they essayed the part, yet it's Rita Hayworth - ten years younger - who seems too old; and her appearances, alas, come as an annoying distraction from the scenes with Charles Laughton & Judith Anderson as Mr & Mrs Herod.
Although bathed in rich Technicolor by veteran cameraman Charles Lang, it's hard to believe the same director who in the bad old days of the Hays Office managed to give us Marlene Dietrich cavorting painted gold in 'Kismet' (1944) could this time round make such dull work of the Dance of the Seven Veils.
Nazimova and Ludmilla Tcherina were both in their forties when they essayed the part, yet it's Rita Hayworth - ten years younger - who seems too old; and her appearances, alas, come as an annoying distraction from the scenes with Charles Laughton & Judith Anderson as Mr & Mrs Herod.
Although bathed in rich Technicolor by veteran cameraman Charles Lang, it's hard to believe the same director who in the bad old days of the Hays Office managed to give us Marlene Dietrich cavorting painted gold in 'Kismet' (1944) could this time round make such dull work of the Dance of the Seven Veils.