" [Many film versions ofSalomehave actually been produced, including one in 1953.] With stacks of script papers in front of her on her work table, she vows that she will return to the silver screen and be directed by the great Cecil B.When the ""Lord and Master"" of the house arrives, after slipping on one of ""Tootie""s"" carelessly-discarded skates, he wants a leisurely meal, but Katie the maid hurriedly speeds everyone through each course.The film was made for a budget of about $1.8 million, but it became Billy Wilder""s first major financial box-office disaster since he began a long string of hits beginning in the early 1940s.(Werdegast laughs hideously) The murderer of 10,000 men returns to the place of his crime.Those who died were fortunate.I was taken prisoner at Kurgaal.Kurgaal, where he soul is killed, slowly.Fifteen years I""ve rotted in the darkness.But not to kill you, but to kill your soul - slowly.Where is my wife, Karen, and my daughter?Released after many years, he learned that Poelzig had married his wife during his imprisonment (making Karen and her daughter believe that he had been killed in action):Werdegast:.