When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
Acting
Hedy Lamarr's smolder could melt the Temple of Dagon.
Production
DeMille built a full-scale temple just to destroy it.
Costume
Peplums so extra they deserve their own credit.
Director
Cecil B. DeMille
Hedy Lamarr
Delilah
Victor Mature
Samson
George Sanders
The Saran of Gaza
Angela Lansbury
Semadar
Henry Wilcoxon
Prince Ahtur
Olive Deering
Miriam
Fay Holden
Hazel
Julia Faye
Haisham
Russ Tamblyn
Saul
William Farnum
Tubal
Lane Chandler
Teresh
Moroni Olsen
Targil
Francis McDonald
Story Teller
William 'Wee Willie' Davis
Garmiskar
John Miljan
Lesh Lakish
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Victor Mature famously refused to wrestle a tame lion, so DeMille used a stuntman in a fur suit for close-ups. The lion was reportedly more cooperative than Mature.
Hedy Lamarr was a secret inventor who developed frequency-hopping technology during WWII—the foundation of modern Wi-Fi and Bluetooth—while playing cinema's most infamous femme fatale.
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