Details

Release year: 1949

Storyline

When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.

Top credits

Directors

Cecil B. DeMille

Writers

Cast

Hedy Lamarr — Delilah
Victor Mature — Samson
George Sanders — The Saran of Gaza
Angela Lansbury — Semadar

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Awards

2 wins & 3 nominations

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Did you know

• For the scene in which Samson kills the lion, Victor Mature refused to wrestle a tame movie lion. Told by Producer and Director Cecil B. DeMille that the lion had no teeth, Mature replied, "I don't want to be gummed to death, either." The scene shows a stuntman wrestling the tame lion, intercut with close-ups of Mature wrestling a lion skin.

• This movie was in post-production when Sunset Boulevard (1950) was being shot at Paramount Pictures. In a scene where Gloria Swanson's character Norma Desmond visits a Paramount soundstage to see Producer and Director Cecil B. DeMille, the set of Delilah's tent in the Valley of Sorek was reassembled to show the director working. Henry Wilcoxon, Julia Faye, and others in costumes were seen shaking hands with Norma Desmond.

• With a $28 million gross domestically, this was Paramount Pictures' biggest hit since The Ten Commandments (1923).