Cecil B. DeMilles Samson and Delilah Comes to Blu-ray ...Starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr, Samson and Delilah materialized at a critical time in Hollywood history...Samson and Delilah may be adapted from the Old Testament (Judges: 13-16), with a few plot complications taken from a historical novel written by the Revisionist Zionist leader Zeev Jabotinsky, but its biblical hero is as American as Superman or Flash Gordon. Mature, who is built like a circus strongman, is introduced with a view of his massive back... Slim and sultry, Lamarr plays the heros Philistine nemesis with a certain ironic conviction. The star regarded by many as the most beautiful woman in Hollywood may also have been the smartest.. Exaggerated physical types are accentuated by monumental, pre-CGI sets, fabulous costumes and an ethos of conspicuous consumption. Lamarr, whose get-ups are artfully contrived to bare her limbs and conceal her navel, makes one grand entrance in a gown of peacock feathers (supposedly harvested from the flock of birds DeMille kept on his ranch)...One of Groucho Marxs most famous wisecracks noted the disparity in the chest development of the movies two stars.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:37:35 +0000
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