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Samson and Delilah

1949

Cecil B. DeMille

Victor Mature, Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury ...

6.3

3,482

Adventure. Drama. Romance In Palestine, 1000 B.C., the Jews are ruled by the Philistines Samson, budding Jewish revolutionary, wants to marry Semadar, a Philistine, though it's her young sister, Delilah, who really wants Samson. The wedding becomes a fight in which Semadar is killed; Samson, scorning Delilah, becomes a guerilla whose strength defeats armies. But Delilah, now the Saran's mistress, believes she can discover Samson's weakness.

	Author	Review
United States	Variety	"Cecil B. DeMille has again dipped into the Bible for his material, made appropriately dramatic revisions in the original, and turned up with a DeMille-size smash"	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"If you'll settle for gold-plated pageants, for muscular episodes and for graphic inducements to wolf-whistling, then 'Samson and Delilah' is for you"	NEU
United States	David Fear Time Out	"By the time Thornton has deftly flipped the script regarding the titular Biblical parable's misogyny, you'll feel as if Aussie cinema has indeed discovered its next great voice (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	TV Guide	"DeMille, the master of the crowd scene, is in top form managing thousands of extras, particularly in the savage battle scenes in which Samson destroys the Philistine army"	POS

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