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The Queen of Sheba

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The Queen of Sheba

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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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Perceval F. Reniers New York Post 01/12/2022
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. Go to Full Review Mabel McElliott New York Daily News 01/12/2022
[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. Go to Full Review Edwin Schallert Los Angeles Times 01/12/2022
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. Go to Full Review Adele Whitley Fletcher Motion Picture Magazine 01/12/2022
Undoubtedly a fortune, many fortunes, have been expended in the making of this production, but it has all been for some purpose. It has given the cinema Court of Solomon a glory commensurate with that which has been sung of it down thru the ages. Go to Full Review Buford Gordon Bennett San Francisco Examiner 01/12/2022
Such camera work made me forget I was in the [theater] viewing a photo play; it made me almost forget the theme of the production, as I allowed myself only to think of what a latitude the camera has. Go to Full Review Shadow Stage Photoplay 01/12/2022
The principal moral lesson is that Los Angeles is a great place to run a lumberyard, a dry-goods store, a paint-house, a carpenter-shop and a decorating business, to say nothing of an agency for extras. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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J. Gordon Edwards

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Betty Blythe

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Movie Info

Director
J. Gordon Edwards
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English