Directed by:
Cecil B. DeMilleScreenplay:
Jesse Lasky Jr.Cinematography:
George BarnesComposer:
Victor YoungCast:
Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Henry Wilcoxon, Olive Deering, Fay Holden, Russ Tamblyn, William Farnum, Lane Chandler (more)Plots(1)
Samson and Delilah is a 1949 American epic film, produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Hedy Lamarr as Delilah, Victor Mature as Samson, George Sanders as the Saran, Angela Lansbury as Semadar, and Henry Wilcoxon as Ahtur. Though his people, the Israelites, are enslaved by the Philistines, Samson, strongest man of the tribe of Dan, falls in love with the Philistine Semadar, whom he wins by virtue of a contest of strength. But Semadar betrays him, and Samson engages in a fight with her real love, Ahtur, and his soldiers. Semadar is killed, and her sister Delilah, who had loved Samson in silence, now vows vengeance against him. She plans to seduce Samson into revealing the secret of his strength and then to betray him to the Philistine leader, the Saran. (Paramount Pictures AU)
(more)Cast
![Hedy Lamarr](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268029_546710.jpg)
Hedy Lamarr
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Strange Woman (1946)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Come Live with Me (1941)
![Victor Mature](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268049_4cbddc.jpg)
Victor Mature
USA
Best movies:
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Safari (1956)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
![George Sanders](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/848/162848201_7fbf7b.png)
George Sanders
Russian Empire
Best movies:
All About Eve (1950)
Love Is News (1937)
Rebecca (1940)
![Angela Lansbury](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/969/162969364_426a7a.jpg)
Angela Lansbury
UK
Best movies:
Sweeney Todd (1982) (TV movie)
Gaslight (1944)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
![Henry Wilcoxon](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/386/386795_0e023a.jpg)
Henry Wilcoxon
Best movies:
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
![Olive Deering](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/120/455/120455750_97708d.jpg)
Olive Deering
USA
Best movies:
Caged (1950)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
![Fay Holden](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/161/159161553_586cc0.jpg)
Fay Holden
UK
Best movies:
Test Pilot (1938)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Canyon Passage (1946)
![Russ Tamblyn](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/711/162711203_cc0d89.jpg)
Russ Tamblyn
USA
Best movies:
Django Unchained (2012)
West Side Story (1961)
Drive (2011)
![William Farnum](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/077/158077995_e7cbd7.jpg)
William Farnum
USA
Best movies:
If I Were King (1938)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
The Crusades (1935)
![Lane Chandler](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/779/158779807_e6a2b4.jpg)
Lane Chandler
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Laura (1944)
![Moroni Olsen](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/298/159298409_d4a028.jpg)
Moroni Olsen
USA
Best movies:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
![Francis McDonald](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/263/158263971_a1f5eb.jpg)
Francis McDonald
USA
Best movies:
The Viking (1928)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
![John Miljan](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/496/496802_f6e790.jpg)
John Miljan
USA
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1956)
If I Were King (1938)
Juarez (1939)
![Kasey Rogers](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/053/160053828_6218e6.jpg)
Kasey Rogers
USA
Best movies:
Strangers on a Train (1951)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
![Victor Varconi](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272145_82c3d8.jpg)
Victor Varconi
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
![Frank Wilcox](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/000/159000142_001f18.jpg)
Frank Wilcox
USA
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
![Russell Hicks](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/000/159000093_e450a1.jpg)
Russell Hicks
USA
Best movies:
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Little Foxes (1941)
![Fritz Leiber](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/030/247/30247402_7ce34a.jpg)
Fritz Leiber
USA
Best movies:
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Bernadette (1943)
![Mike Mazurki](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/316/316865_086c9e.jpg)
Mike Mazurki
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
![George Reeves](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/030/247/30247440_1c599a.jpg)
George Reeves
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Samson and Delilah (1949)