SALOME'S LAST DANCE is a 1988 film by British film director, Ken Russell. Although most of the action is a verbatim performance
of Oscar Wilde's 1893 play Salome,there is also a framing narrative written by Russell himself. Wilde (Nickolas Grace) and his lover Lord
Alfred Douglas (Douglas Hodge) arrive late on Guy Fawkes Day at their friend's brothel, where they are treated to a surprise staging
of Wilde's play, public performances of which have just been banned in England by the Lord Chamberlain's office.

For those who are not familiar with the New Testament story about Salome, she was daughter of King Herod's brother Philip and Herodias. She danced for the King and his dinner guests
and then she requested the head of John the Baptist. John was beheaded and his head was delivered to Salome on a platter. (Matthew 14 and Mark 6)