“Samson And Delilah”
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When Cecil B. De Mille makes a picture, two things are certain; it will be a spectacle and it will be good entertainment, too. “Samson and Delilah” offered De Mille the opportunity to outdo himself. The scenes where Samson destroys the temple, kills a lion with his bare hands and slays one thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass will be long remembered. Above all, however, there’s the three-cornered love story of Delilah, Semadar and Miriam, each of whom, in her own way, loves Samson too well.
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Cecil B. De Mille directs Henry Wilcoxon, Angela Lansbury and Victor Mature in the dramatic wedding scene. The seventy-six-year-old De Mille sent a special unit on 2,000-mile trek across North Africa to collect props for picture
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The wedding feast which ends in tragedy for Henry Wilcoxon, Angela Lansbury, Victor Mature
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The Saran (George Sanders) reluctantly agrees to let Delilah (Hedy Lamarr) try her plan to capture the mighty Samson
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Delilah discovers the secret of Samson’s (Vic Mature) great strength, his hair, cuts it after she has drugged him
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Torn by remorse, Delilah pleads with Samson to leave with her. But the blinded captive’s prayer has been answered
It is a quote. PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE JANUARY 1950