YES, MR.DEMILLE (1959)

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218 Y^ Mr. DeMille his strength is." You can see what her viewpoint is. "Boy, will I! Ill bring this bastard in with a ring through his nose. I'll lead him! The only condition I make is that you won't harm him. He's mine," And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and hi$ strength went from him. That's quite a scene. There Delilah has her great triumph and the Philistines come and take him away. Now they'd promised not to touch his skin. Well, they didn't. But they held a hot poker near his eyes and blinded him. When she goes to visit him in the prison houseā€”he's blind! She cringes with remorse. Hell never see her beauty, her lovely body, the things that prompted her to do everything so she could be his, so she could show her- self to him, get the satisfaction of the passion from him that she could create. It was all gone! If she was an ugly wench it wouldn't be any different That's when she falls in love with him. She goes down and sits with him, the great Delilah, the great cour- tesan, the great mistress of the King, goes down and sits with this outcast, this blinded, ridiculous slave. Now, there are certain things you cannot do. You can't offend the great house of Israel. I think they regard him as a clown more than anything else. Samson was a whoremonger, a guy who apparently went out and raised hell. He's no fool and yet he's a fool He goes out and gets drunk and does the shrewdest things. 4. LATE in November 1939, Paramount purchased the film rights to Family Portrait for $35,000, to be made into a movie produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Anxious inquiries burst from a number of religious quarters.