The Queen of Sheba (1921)
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Critic Consensus: Led by Betty Blythe's luminous performance, The Queen of Sheba offers a thrilling showcase for cinema's ability to thrill and amaze.
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Cast
as Queen of Sheba
as Queen Amrath, Wife of Solomon
as Tamaran, Courtier of Sheba
as Menton, Sheba's Minister of State
as King David
as Beth Sheba
as Sheba's Son, Aged 4
as Olos, Sheba's Giant Slaue
as The Envoy of the Pharaoh
as The Princess of Vashti
as Joab, a Soldier
as Adonijoh. Brother of Solomon
as King Solomon
Critic Reviews for The Queen of Sheba
All Critics (27) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (2)
[It] presents a swiftly moving, gracefully welded story. I can think of several places where it might have been ended with much more telling effect than with the rather dragged out finale it now boasts. But the illusion is, for the most part, complete.
At all costs, almost literally, a spectacle has been made. It has all the prerequisites of such pageantry, and most of them are splendidly and lavishly executed, often with breathtaking enormity of design.
It contains love scenes that have been rarely paralleled in pictures. It reaches some beautiful highlands of art in the visualizing of a remote era in civilization, with its color and pageantry, and pillared magnificence of settings.
People who like to see armies clashing together. chariots racing, and troops of camels moving in slow silhouette against a desert sky will find them there in full measure, well staged and photographed.
Although [Blythe] wears about as few clothes as the censor will allow, she is lovely enough to keep the role from becoming at all gross or sensual.
A picture that will attract even those to whom motion pictures generally make no appeal.
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