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.

| Jan 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.

| Jan 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.

| Jan 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.

| Jan 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.

| Jan 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.

| Jan 12, 2022

The Queen of Sheba despite its voluminous subtitles and occasional crudities, is a spectacular par excellence, for beside the chariot race there are several minor events to thrill and most of. the scenes furnish a real feast for the eye.

| Jan 12, 2022

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.

| Jan 12, 2022

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.

| Jan 12, 2022

A picture that will attract even those to whom motion pictures generally make no appeal.

| Jan 12, 2022

Betty Blythe, in the title role, wearing regal garb and rich jewels, acquits herself distinctly well. Fritz Lieber plays Solomon as a King without his beard, but with all his wisdom.

| Jan 12, 2022

Founded on the Biblical story of Solomon and the beautiful Sheban queen, the play depicts many of the incidents of the Biblical tale and surrounds them with a vivid romance that makes the story worthy of the elaborate production it has been given.

| Jan 12, 2022

The fleetness and rhythm of the chariot horses during the races is stirring. The ceremonies were very gorgeous in those days, and the people's conception of headgear is beyond modern imagination.

| Jan 12, 2022

It is a picture of fine scenic investiture and impressive groupings as settings for Miss Blythe's opulent beauty.

| Jan 12, 2022

There are more people, more mules, more horses, more camels, more spears, more palaces and fewer clothes than in any previous spectacle... In spite of which, The Queen of Sheba has a considerable amount of real dramatic merit.

| Oct 5, 2021

The picture as it stands is a beautiful and impressive spectacle. A few earnest students of bibliology, however, without doubt will gaze upon the film in amazement and consternation.

| May 17, 2021

Never before in the history of the screen has such a thrill as that of the women chariot racers been accomplished. It is the big moment in The Queen of Sheba and of itself worth going to see.

| Jul 31, 2020

It is a spectacle which appeals to the eye. The bizarre costuming, the massiveness of the sets, the physical allurement of its feminine figures, the romance and chariot race -- these spell an entertainment the power of which cannot be denied.

| Jul 31, 2020

The picture is another effort to win by astonishment. Everything that could be thought of by J. Gordon Edwards, the director, and others that would amaze, startle and shock those eager or able to be shocked seems to have been crowded into it.

| Jul 17, 2020

The tale has been put together nicely with the continuity consistent and of enough strength to hold, though there are occasional lapses where the necessity of carrying the story on come to light.

| Jul 17, 2020