Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah (1984)

A tale of passion and betrayal in which Samson, a judge of Israel who fled with his tribe during the Great Exodus from Egypt, uses his herculean strength in the fight against the Philistine oppressors. He is seduced by Delilah, a Philistine courtesan, who uses her cunning to discover the secret of her lover's great power and then betrays him.

Date of release
1984-03-31
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
TV Movie, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Director
Lee Philips

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Mexico

Samson and Delilah is a 1984 television film adaptation of the biblical story of Samson and Delilah directed by Lee Philips and starring Max von Sydow, Belinda Bauer, Antony Hamilton, Daniel Stern and Victor Mature. Mature played Samson in the 1949 film and had a small cameo as the father of Antony Hamilton's Samson. This was his final acting role. Based on the 1962 novel Husband of Delilah by Eric Linklater, Samson and Delilah originally aired on ABC.

Production

Mature says he told the producer "I'll play Samson's father if the price is right." It was entirely shot in Mexico. Monty Cox trained the male African lion in this production.

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.

Recommended