The queen sends Salome away and consults with her advisor, who agrees that the queen can use the king's desire for Salome for her own benefit. Queen Herodias greets her daughter warmly when she arrives at the palace, and becomes aware of the lecherous intentions of the king, who marvels at the beauty of his stepdaughter/niece. He interrupts her angry tirade by stealing a long kiss, which shocks her.
When he brings sea water instead, she slaps him. He is amused by her haughty behavior and thwarts her attempt to order him around when she demands to use drinking water instead of sea water for her bath aboard the ship. On the boat escorting her home, Salome meets Claudius, a Roman soldier assigned to the palace of Herod. When Marcellus does nothing to protest Caesar's decree, she declares that she shall never love another Roman.
The king believes John the Baptist is the Messiah because of the mistaken belief of some peasants.Īfter Marcellus, nephew of Caesar, petitions his uncle to marry Salome, he receives a message stating that he is forbidden to marry a "barbarian." Salome is also sent a message stating that she is banished from Rome for seeking to rise above her station, and will be escorted back to Galilee, despite having lived in Rome since childhood. The prophecy states that if a king of Judea kills the Messiah, he will suffer an agonizing death. The king is not pleased with the Baptist condemning his rule, but fears he will face the same fate his father, the elder Herod, suffered after ordering the murder of firstborn males when Jesus was born. Herodias resents John's denunciation of her marriage to the king, her former husband's brother, for which John labels her an adulteress. In Galilee, during the rule of Rome's Tiberius Caesar ( Cedric Hardwicke), King Herod ( Charles Laughton) and Queen Herodias ( Judith Anderson) sit on the throne and are condemned by a prophet known as John the Baptist ( Alan Badel). Although based on the New Testament story, the film does not follow the Biblical text, critically passing the blame of John the Baptist's death wholly upon her mother.
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