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...should confuse DeMille with art, but Samson and Delilah comes closest of all his films to fitting normal standards of taste. For once he departs from the archaic film-making conventions which mark his other work. Technically, The Ten Commandments is cruder than Birth of a Nation, but Samson and Delilah looks comparatively modern. DeMille's camera moves more than usual, and often beautifully. He stages Delilah's discovery of Samson's blindness with real cinematic imagination; the camera follows Samson turning the millstone as he passes by her, completely oblivious to her seductive presence. The color, while no better...
...Samson and Delilah displays all of DeMille's virtues and few of his faults. Despite a mawkish prologue ("Human dignity perished on the altar of Idolatry"), the mating of liberty with monotheism is less corny than in The Ten Commandments. The vitality of villainy provides the film's greatest fascinations; DeMille stood foursquare against sin but always loved the chance to show just how much sin he was against...
...Negro ghettos comes quickly," the outlook is for "more destructive and bloody uprisings that are no longer going to be confined to the ghetto areas, but will be carried into white racial areas." Noting the nihilistic mood among many Negroes, Fry added: "The present situation is comparable to Samson when he destroyed the Temple of Dagon and himself along with it. Like him, many black brothers, blind with rage, have their hands poised on the temple pillars, ready to start pushing...
...Samson, Run, by Neil Sedaka...
...Samson...