Framed as a play within a film, Ken Russell’s otherwise faithful adaptation of Oscar Wilde's "Salome" — a tale of a young biblical temptress -- follows the writer (Nickolas Grace) as he watches the performance while lounging in a brothel with his lover (Douglas Hodge). After John the Baptist (Hodge) spurns her advances, Salome (Imogen Millais-Scott) demands that her stepfather, King Herod (Stratford Johns), deliver the disciple's head on a platter.