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	Customer Reviews : Page 1 : Samson & Delilah (1950)
		Later the son, Samson, is born and he is reared according to the dictates of the angel.
		Samson grew to be an Israelite of incredible strength and was a scourge of the Philistines.
		Samson is utilized his massive strength to combat his enemies and perform heroic feats unachievable by ordinary men such as wrestling a lion; slaying an entire army with nothing more than a mule's jawbone and breaking down an entire building.
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	Samson and Delilah (1949 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samson and Delilah is a 1949 film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr as the title characters.
		Samson, a Hebrew, is engaged to a Philistine woman named Semadar.
		During a fight at their wedding feast, Semadar is killed and Samson becomes a hunted man. Semadar's sister, Delilah, plots to deliver Samson up for punishment.
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	Samson and Delilah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samson and Delilah, an opera by Camille Saint-Saëns
		Samson and Delilah, the club mascots of Sunderland A.F.C. (fl cats).
		Samson and Delilah, a song by Middle of the Road
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	He Smote Them Hip and Thigh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Samson of the tribe of Dan is consecrated as a child as a Nazarite, whose vows include no strong drink or haircuts.
		It is unclear whether Samson does this to impress his date or to thwart the hiding Philistines after somehow becoming aware of their presence.
		Samson next loves Delilah, "a woman in the valley of Sorek." Delilah may or may not be a Philistine, but the Philistines use her against Samson.
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	Society of Biblical Literature
		In the case of Delilah, though, aesthetic interpreters have been more willing to ignore the complexity of her character in favor of taking the flattening approach I mentioned earlier to its logical conclusion; i.e., rendering her in only one particular way.
		In this song, even though Delilah is clearly the instigator of the events leading to Samson's death and seems to be the one shaving his hair, we get no information regarding her motives or feelings.
		Thus, in this category of songs, Delilah is given no motivation for her actions, except for a possible dislike of strong men in general; as such, we as listeners are left with catchy tunes proclaiming Delilah as a woman who takes advantage of Samson in order to enact his downfall.
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		Lamarr was 86 and was known for films such as "Tortilla Flat" and is shown in a scene in this photograph from the 1949 film "Samson and Delilah.
		Lamarr was 86 and was known for films such as "Tortilla Flat and is shown in a scene in this photograph from the 1949 film "Samson and Delilah" with co-star Victor Mature.
		The 1933 film "Ecstasy" was the tale of a young woman's ill-fated cuckolding of her elderly husband.
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		Delilah, beautiful and treacherous, plans his destruction forcing him to fight for his life and the future of his people.
		But redemption is at hand, and by film's end practically the entire cast has been entombed in the rubble wrought by Samson's final, desperate feat of strength.
		Victor Mature, who of course played Samson in the 1949 film, was coaxed out of retirment to portray Samson's father, while Max Von Sydow, who Biblical-movie credits include the part of Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told, delivers an impressively subtle performance as the Philistine governor.
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	Have Lamb Will Martyr
		In tragic due course, Samson was cuckolded as a man, he was thwarted as a suitor, lover, husband, father and grandfather, and he was repeatedly humiliated, outwitted and betrayed by friends and foe alike.
		Samson's Israelite flock were the equivalent of the holy congregation of "lambs" (John 21:15,16,17) that Jesus instructed the Apostle Peter to feed for him.
		For example, in her rustic kitchen, Samson's mother complained to him saying: "you were brawling through the streets of Timnath with the Philistines," and then again on the lion hunt when the Saran called him a "brawling troublemaker," which Samson cheekily accepted as a badge of honour.
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	Codex: The Old Testament/Hebrew Bible on Film
		The film's lack of success at the box office (it lost millions) is no doubt the reason why it was one of the last major films based on the Old Testament produced during this era.
		Many of these films are quite campy and some even approach being exploitational as they obviously try to push the envelope on just how much sexuality and nudity can be shown on screen because they are portraying a biblical story.
		Samson and Delilah (Director: Cecil B. DeMille, 1949).
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	Amazon.com: Samson & Delilah (1950) (1949) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Later the son, Samson, is born and he is reared according to the dictates of the angel.
		Samson grew to be an Israelite of incredible strength and was a scourge of the Philistines.
		Samson is utilized his massive strength to combat his enemies and perform heroic feats unachievable by ordinary men such as wrestling a lion; slaying an entire army with nothing more than a mule's jawbone and breaking down an entire building.
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		The Delilah of DeMille's film is a Philistine, and this construction of the story is common.
		Curiously, the portrayal of Delilah as a Philistine patriot makes her a mirror image, as it were, of Judith, who employed her native charms to wile the heart and whack off the head of Holofernes.
		Thus, Delilah's treatment of Samson, which earlier ages described as a shameless betrayal, might today be viewed as a regrettable but unavoidable personal dilemma (‘a woman's right to choose’?), morally justified if it entails enough internal agonizing.
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	Samson Los Angeles 9/99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Domingo is now artistic director designate of the company (he has already become its symbol, his picture emblazoned on T-shirts and mouse pads with the company's logo), and his short stay in town (just three performances before jetting off to open the Met's season with "I Pagliacci") is also packed with administrative business.
		Samson, at the end, proved his own critic when he brought the house down on Daniel Pelzig's trivially choreographed Bacchanal.
		Her "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix," with Domingo ringing the heights of "je t'aime" in tandem, was easily the high point of the evening, but then it usually is. By some margin, it's the best thing in the opera and hard to resist.
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	MSN Encarta - Cecil B. Demille
		In 1923, while attempting to help redeem the Hollywood film industry from charges of promoting immorality, DeMille stumbled upon the genre that would serve him best for the remainder of his career: that of the pious epic, often biblically based, and studded with overblown spectacle and sexual titillation.
		DeMille both directed and produced all of his 70 films, and in the course of his career he worked in nearly every conceivable genre.
		In 1949 he received a special Academy Award for “37 years of brilliant showmanship.” In 1952The Greatest Show on Earth won the Academy Award for best picture, and DeMille was honored with the Irving Thalberg Award.
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		Mature began his career, which counted over 60 feature films, as a student of the acclaimed Pasadena Community Playhouse with fellow hopeful George Reeves.
		Films now considered American movie classics like "My Darling Clementine" and "Samson and Delilah" paired Mature with respected performers like Henry Fonda and Hedy Lamarr, but at the end of his career, the actor quipped, "I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it".
		In 1984, Mature made his last movie appearance as Samson's father in a remake of Samson and Delilah, the 1949 film credited with making Mature and Hedy Lamarr superstars.
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	Samson and Delilah (1949) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In Palestine, 1000 B.C., the Jews are ruled by the Philistines Samson, budding Jewish revolutionary...
		And Mature's 'Samson' was a sure delight (even though he was told to drop 30 lbs.
		Biblical stories are always interesting and enjoyable if filmed in this colorful way, as was The 10 Commandments.
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		Samson and Delilah is a 1949 film directed by Cecil B, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
		Delilah regrets her act after Samson is blinded by his captors, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
		My Foolish Heart (My foolish heart is a 1949 film which tells the story of a womans reflections on the bad turns her life has...)
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	Samson and Delilah @ Cent's Mall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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.
		When Delilah fears that Samson will leave her, she betrays him to the local Philistine ruler (George Sanders) after learning the secret of Samson´s extraordinary strength lies in his long hair, which she promptly cuts.
		"Samson and Delilah" is one of my favorite stories from the Bible and although DeMille changed some of the facts of the story it still remains a very entertaining classic.
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	The Poison Kitchen: The decline of religious films from Kirk Douglas to Kirk Cameron
		The Biblical epics and Christian themed films of that period were greenlit not just because there was a demand (which there was both then and now) but because it was seen as a political necessity by the studio heads.
		The fact that the films were so prominent was largely because the studios put as much money and talent into Christian and Biblical Epics (as well as patriotic films) as they could to prove that Hollywood wasn't anti-American (in a HUAC sense).
		I certainly don't mean to suggest that all religious films were done because of the Red Scare, but rather that contrary to what Matthew and Amy suggested, the huge number of films in the 50s and early 60s weren't really a change in demographics or religious interest, but because of political/historical factors.
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	'Samson' undercut by hokum
		This writer is always slightly embarrassed for opera when he sees "Samson and Delilah," a feeling he rarely gets with Mozart, Verdi or Wagner, say, even when their plots are ridiculous.
		Delilah, the forbidden morsel certainly not on Samson's diet plan, no longer seems such a potent figure (even if she has a potent figure).
		Mezzo-soprano Milena Kitic provided a properly beautiful Delilah, negotiating the lower depths of the part with a fluid, full tone that became more lustrous as she went into her upper register.
	www.ocregister.com /ocr/2005/02/24/sections/entertainment/entertainment/article_418326.php (739 words)

	Quodlibet Online Journal: Religious Film Fears 3: Being Sacrilegious, Criticising or Devaluing the Faith - by Anton ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Using textually-based, humanist film criticism as the analytical lens, the critical film and religion literature was reviewed and the additional fears of being sacrilegious, criticising or devaluing the faith was copiously explicated and documented herein.
		If Jewish groups were loud in their protest against films that pictured them as Christ killers, Catholics were equally fervent in denouncing movies that emphasized the dark days of the Inquisition, the terror of the cloister, the mystery of the Process, and the omnipresence of the rack and the screw.
		In particular, the film is “the story of a love-relationship that is authentic, committed and redemptive, a love-story that is nothing less than an elaborate metaphor of the redemptive-salvific encounter of Jesus Christ and the sinner [Luke 7:36-50]” (Baugh, 2003, p.
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		I've read the Bible and gone to movies ever since I was old enough to read and to slap down a dime at the box office.
		Samson and Delilah: Opera in Three Acts (printed edition of the
		The children's book Samson and Delilah and Other Old Testament Stories (ages 9-12) by
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		When Samson comes to, he finds himself surrounded by the guards of the king (the role of the king was played by the British actor (George Sanders).
		The role of the Commander-In-Chief in “Samson And Delilah” was played by the British actor Henry Brandon who played the same role in the Biblical “The Ten Commandments” also a Cecil B. De Mille film.
		Other films starring Victor Mature are the first Cinemascope film “The Robe” and its sequel “Demetrius And The Gladiators” in which Victor Mature is Demetrius, and a comedy movie called “After The Fox” with the British comedian actor Peter Sellers (dead).
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		The pilot episode was written and filming took place in January 1974, with the interiors filmed at Paramount Pictures, with the outdoor location scenes in Farmington, Mother Lode foothills and the Stanislaus National Forest in California.
		The series filming was done in two states, in California and Arizona, and local exteriors were filmed at Big Sky Ranch in Simi Valley, which had been used in "Bonanza's" later years, with other locales such as Bronson Canyon and Golden Oak Ranch in California.
		While Michael was filming the city street segments for the "Chicago" episode at Fox Studios that summer, Pernell Roberts initially met him for the first time since he left "Bonanza" in 1965.
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	Denny Jackson's Hedy Lamarr Page
		In 1949, she appeared as Delilah opposite Victor Mature in SAMSON AND DELILAH.
		This film proved to be Paramount Studios biggest movie to date bringing in $12 million in rental from theaters.
		The success of the film led to more parts but it was not enough to ease her financial crunch.
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	Profiles 4: Film People > German-Hollywood Connection
		His films include: No No Nanette, My Darling Clementine, Samson and Delilah, The Robe, The Egyptian, Demetrius and the Gladiator, and a few classic noir films.
		He is buried in the Stahnsdorf cemetery near Berlin and the Ufa film studios where his directing career began.
		After directing several French films in the early 1950s, Ophüls returned to Germany in 1956 to direct a stage play in Hamburg, where he died of a heart condition two months after the play had opened.
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		from the 1949 film "Samson and Delilah" with co-star Victor
		In 1949 she made her biggest hit and favourite film, Cecil B. De Mille's "Samson and Delilah."
		Her next two films, "Lady of the Tropics" (1939) and "I Take This Woman" (1940) flopped.
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		While I waited (two hours!) for Helen I went into the sitting room where the main TV is located, and watched Cecil B De Mille’s 1949 film Samson and Delilah.
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		Entering the hotel through the small lobby we went through a series of public rooms and corridors to the restaurant Mes’Anges which is in a restrained Louis XIV style.
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	Hedy Lamarr Videos, Books, Memorabilia
		Hedy Lamarr's infamous film which rocketed her to world fame.
		In this classic film, Hedy Lamarr stars as a young woman with the misfortune of having a less than amorous husband.
		Hedy Lamarr is on fire as Delilah, Mature holds his own as a frustrated Samson.
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