Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

Record Details:

Title:
Modern Screen
Date:
Dec 1949 - Nov 1950
Publisher:
Dunellen, N.J. : Syndicate Pub. Co
Volume:
Modern screen
Leaf #:
000126
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography -- Periodicals
Collection:
Fan Magazines and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
August 29, 2022
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Hedy Lamarr is the tempting Delilah and Victor Mature is Samson, her muscular victim, in Cecil B. De Mille's spectacular Samson and Delilah. SAMSON AND DELILAH ■ The biggest, and I do mean biggest, attraction for the movie-goer this month is Paramount's Samson and Delilah. It's tremendous, impressive, and beautiful to look at. I thought it was a lot of fun. Part Holy Bible, part C. B. De Mille, and Technicolored in the bargain. Samson and Delilah gives you a lot of show for your money. Victor Mature plays Samson, the reckless strong man who falls in love with a beauti'ul Philistine woman. Samson is a Danite ( the Danites are cruelly taxed and oppressed by the Philistines) so when he breaks the news to his family, there are no cheers of joy. But love is love, and Samson so terrifies and impresses his future father-in-law, to say nothing of the Philistine leader (George Sanders) when he, Samson, breaks a lion into pieces with his bare hands, that he's promised the lady of his choice (Angela Lansbury). Still, there's many a slip. Angela marries another, is foully murdered, etc., etc., and Samson starts tearing up houses and setting fields on fire, in very colorful fashion. Well, the Philistines set another lady, Delilah (Hedy Lamarr), to find out the secret of Samson's strength, and she does just that. Everything he eats goes to his head. Without his hair, he's an average mortal. According to the Bible, Delilah had no special motive for betraying Samson. She was just a good Philistine. In C. B.'s version, she's Angela Lansbury 's younger sister, and Samson's scorned her for love of Angela, and she's never forgotten it. A couple of times she almost forgets it, but then there's Samson's hometown girl. 16 MOVIE