Palestine, under the rule of Rome. Salome, daughter of Herodias and both niece and stepdaughter of King Herod, becomes infatuated with the prophet John the Baptist, who publicly denounces the depravity of the royal family and proclaims the arrival of a new messiah. (Film presumed lost.)

• Fox Film Corporation
• Theda Bara
• G. Raymond Nye
• Alan Roscoe
• Herbert Heyes
• Bertram Grassby
• Genevieve Blinn
• Vera Doria
• Al Fremont