Samson and Delilah

11/9/2025

Thirty five years after he took the top billing, Victor Mature briefly returns as his own dad (Manoah) in this rehash of the biblical story of the fabulously strong man (Antony Hamilton) who has to help get his tribe safely from Egypt and then who becomes emotionally ensnared by the manipulatively glamorous Delilah (Belinda Bauer). She is a Philistine who is intent on helping her governor Sidka (an extremely hammy Max von Sydow) and the malevolent high priest Dagon (Jose Ferrer) to either harness or destroy his lion-killing might. What now ensues takes quite a bit of cinematic licence with the story from the book of Judges but still manages to present a decently crafted iteration with some reasonable attention to the look and the detail of the feature. It’s a bit wordy and despite the name