YES, MR.DEMILLE (1959)

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"HIT SEX HARD!" 213 suited and referred to when a writer, unwittingly or not, strayed from the original theme. On this occasion DeMille held an Old Testament on his lap, the page turned to the Samson chapters in the Book of Judges; he read aloud from the Great Book, stopping after each verse to give his interpretation of what it meant. Biblical scholars might have shuddered at the swift analysis of the episodes, and the ease with which DeMille supplied links between unlinked occurrences. DeMille began: I really got part of the idea for Samson and Delilah from an old Hindu story about a courtesan who loved a priest. She was the mistress of an emperor and when the emperor foinid out about the priest he had the courtesan's feet, hands and breasts cut off and he threw her on a dung heap outside the city, and then the priest came and sat with her. And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, "Behold, now, thou art barren, and bearest not; but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son." And the woman bare a son, and called him Samson. And the child grew, and the Lord blessed him. Actually Samson's mother swore him to be whatever it was—a Nazarite?—to be clean from birth, to touch no liquor or women, but he didn't live up to that, apparently. Then his father and his mother said unto him y "Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among aU my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumdsed Philistines?" Samson said unto his father, "Get her for me, for she pleaseth me wett" Samson says, "Get her for me, for she pleaseth me well.'* You can see his father saying, "Listen, Samson, my boy, why do you have to go over to the other side and choose a daughter of our enemies? Well, you can have many beauties right here in our own neighborhood. Look at Sam Jones* daughter down the