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Like a flyweight Samson, Billy sets everything tumbling with one incredible heave, then changes his mind and dashes about trying to catch the pieces. British Novelist Waterhouse agitates his farce with vigor as Billy makes up his mind to leave for London, tells off his parents, resigns his job and, in an apocalyptic mood, wastes an hour feeding what he supposes are aphrodisiac pills to one of his fiancees. After further complications, Billy becomes entwined with, if not actually engaged to a third girl...
/Judges 9:54 (Abimelech), Judges 16:30 (Samson), / Samuel 31'4-5 (Saul and his armor bearer), // Samuel 17:23 (Ahithophel), I Kings 16:18 (Zimri), // Maccabees 14:41 (Razis), Matthew 27:5 (Judas), Acts 16:27 (the jailer...
Altdorfer, leader of the "Danube School," saw the world as a stage, but a stage of infinite beauty and variety. Head in the lap of the treacherous Delilah, his Samson sleeps in the foreground of a landscape that is as weird and as familiar as a dream. Behind a bare tree in the background hover the Philistines, ready to pounce upon the sheared ram of God. Watteau's study of lovers in a park makes black, white and red stand for all the colors of the rainbow. In Watteau, love and laughter blend into one. To round the gallery...
...Perlberg-Seafon; Paramount) is a new version of a slight Samson Raphaelson comedy (Accent on Youth) which first appeared on Broadway in 1934, and soon thereafter on the screen. Hollywood has packed a prize cast into the remodeled hull, but the craft is still so frail that only the acting mastery of Lee J. Cobb and Lilli Palmer saves it from capsizing...
Most of the movie is grounded in muddled mythology; the scriptwriter seems to get Hercules mixed up with Samson, the Amazons with the ladies of Lemnos. But no matter. Few Amazons ever looked better, especially in a scene filmed against the background of an obviously modern cemetery, where one of the big, tough gals explains that this is where visiting men are buried "when we kill them after the mating season." The good guys fight the bad; Hercules topples pillars on horses and men, breaks iron chains as if they were Zippers and routs an army singlehanded. "If this picture...