Directed by:
Cecil B. DeMilleScreenplay:
Jesse Lasky Jr.Cinematography:
George BarnesComposer:
Victor YoungCast:
Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Henry Wilcoxon, Olive Deering, Fay Holden, Russ Tamblyn, William Farnum, Lane Chandler (more)Plots(1)
Samson and Delilah is a 1949 American epic film, produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Hedy Lamarr as Delilah, Victor Mature as Samson, George Sanders as the Saran, Angela Lansbury as Semadar, and Henry Wilcoxon as Ahtur. Though his people, the Israelites, are enslaved by the Philistines, Samson, strongest man of the tribe of Dan, falls in love with the Philistine Semadar, whom he wins by virtue of a contest of strength. But Semadar betrays him, and Samson engages in a fight with her real love, Ahtur, and his soldiers. Semadar is killed, and her sister Delilah, who had loved Samson in silence, now vows vengeance against him. She plans to seduce Samson into revealing the secret of his strength and then to betray him to the Philistine leader, the Saran. (Paramount Pictures AU)
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Hedy Lamarr's debut in a color film was the highlight of her Hollywood career. As the biblical Delilah, she foreshadowed for many years everything important for all the other beauties of the biblical epics that became so typical of the 1950s. The question is if Hedy had gotten to color film sooner, whether it would have had any effect on the current view of her legend, which seems to have fallen, quite unfairly, halfway between Elektra and Metro. In the end, it was during the filming of Samson and Delilah that Cecil was visited by Norma Desmond herself... if only she could have passed her magic on.
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