- Actors: Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Henry Wilcoxon
- Directors: Cecil B. DeMille
- Writers: Fredric M. Frank, Harold Lamb, Jesse Lasky Jr., Vladimir Jabotinsky
- Producers: Cecil B. DeMille
- Format: NTSC
- Number of tapes: 2
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- Studio: Paramount
- VHS Release Date: April 1 2004
- Run Time: 131 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 6300216012
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #277 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Behaving as if it hadn't already been immortalized in Judges, chapters 13-16, Cecil B. DeMille immortalized history's most famous haircut all over again in this 1949 classic of the Epic Saga genre. Victor Mature is a trifle bovine as Samson--which perhaps isn't so inappropriate--but Hedy Lamarr's Delilah is a magnet on fire. Impossibly perfect and sexy, she sashays through the movie in a whole wardrobe of revealing halter tops, bending the men like blades of grass. These days it's hard to enjoy a DeMille film without condescension: from Samson's fight with a lion that might well be stuffed, to the famous collapsing-temple scene, we are constantly aware of how far movies have come, and the Philistines parade around in costumes that won an Oscar but can only remind the modern viewer of Klingon cocktail parties. But in so many other ways this is very classy filmmaking. DeMille takes considerable liberties with the biblical story to come up with a sort of Ur-narrative of love, betrayal, and remorse that you can swallow very nicely with or without its religious ingredient. Best exchange: Lamarr--"You killed him with... your hands. Oh, Samson!" (Jumps on Mature's back.) Mature--"Hey! One cat at a time!" Also stars George Sanders, a very youthful (and miscast) Angela Lansbury, and impassioned music by Victor Young. --Richard Farr
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Gorgeous,
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This review is from: Samson and Delilah (VHS Tape)
I LOVED this movie when I was a kid! And watching it at my now makes me love it even more. It helps to understand the little things more than I used to. :)
4.0 out of 5 stars
Correcting an error in the Amazon review,
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This review is from: Samson and Delilah (VHS Tape)
Yeah, I give the film "four stars" but my main reason for submitting is to set the record straight. Angela Lansbury did not play Samson's sister; she played "Semadar", sister to Delilah and betrothed of Samson. Her accidental death at the hands of one of the Philistine wedding party sends Samson in a murderous rage, setting the stage for Delilah's emergence as a treacherous romantic interest.
2.0 out of 5 stars
yes, groucho, vic's chest is bigger than heddys!,
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This review is from: Samson and Delilah (VHS Tape)
when the inimitable groucho marx was asked if he was going to attend the premiere of this movie, he responded that he refused to go to any movie where the hero had a bigger chest than the leading lady!they dont make them like this anymore, which is a good thing!
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