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...pitching side, starter Bob Lincoln and reliever Bob Dorwart allowed men on base in all but one inning but still managed to contain the Lion attack...
With two out in the bottom of the first, Lord slapped a change-up delivery off Lion hurler Paul Brosnan into short center, scoring Bill Cobb to tie the game...
...story of good man led astray, DeMille pays little attention to the seduced here, concentrating instead on Delilah's lust for Samson. From her first appearance, as the kid sister of Samson's beloved, she is obviously excited by Samson's body, and her reaction to his outwrestling a lion is explicitly sexual. DeMille tentatively suggests Delilah's role as emasculating bitch (at one point she turns Samson into a docile houseboy), but ultimately backs away from this idea and has her "repent." Still, between DeMille's perversity and Hedy Lamarr's devastating charms, Delilah emerges as a highly unusual...
George Sanders, as the head Philistine, delivers a beautiful portrayal of George Sanders, bringing to oily life such DeMille epigrams as, "A man who could stop the heart of a lion could still the heart of a woman." Possibly the high point of his film career comes when, playing with an enormous ant farm, he explains, "Industrious little creatures. The Babylonians call them z'vuv; the Danites call them nemlach. We call them ants...
...again, preparing to conduct that most Viennese of operas, Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. He professed to be terrified. "Every Vienna taxi driver knows Rosenkavalier as well as he does the national anthem," said Bernstein, adding with a little Viennese exaggeration, "It's like walking into the lion...