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...early years of the 19th century, then turned patriot and won pardon for his men by helping Andy Jackson win the Battle of New Orleans. But somewhere along the production line, C.B., now 77, gave the reins into younger hands. The picture was actually made by Producer Henry Wilcoxon, a onetime star (The Crusades) and longtime assistant of the great man, and by Actor Anthony Quinn, DeMille's son-in-law, who in The Buccaneer has taken on his first assignment as a director...
Somehow, all the blustering statistics do not add up to very much in the way of entertainment. What Wilcoxon and Quinn have produced is just a half-deflated imitation of the old man at his overblown best. The pace is often too vague or too slow, the color suave and unexciting, the costumes tasteful but somehow forgettable...
...acting in a DeMille picture bears about the same relation to ordinary acting that a DeMille spectacle bears to everyday life. Holding up the florid tradition of black-hearted villainy are George Sanders and Henry Wilcoxon. Mature is suitably curly-haired and big-muscled as Samson. For all her plumage, including a gown of 2,000 peacock feathers (which DeMille ordered retouched for more color), Miss Lamarr's slitherings suggest a small-town belle making like a femme fatale...
...picture in the cloud, Samson and Delilah with Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr, will not be released until January, but last week Producer Cecil B. DeMille's special emissary, Actor Henry Wilcoxon, had left Hollywood to turn on the downpour in 25 major cities. With him was Pressagent Richard Condon, who planned the campaign, and luggage containing 400 pounds of promotion material and special gadgets. Wilcoxon's mission: to pour it on for six groups of "public opinion leaders" in each city-women's clubs, churches and religious groups, school officials, fashion designers, manufacturers and retailers...
...Francisco and Seattle, where Wilcoxon made his first two-day stops, each group got the appropriate tea or cocktails, a recorded greeting from DeMille and a 40-minute spiel from husky, suave Henry Wilcoxon. The actor, who plays a military governor in the film and goes on drawing his $1,000 weekly salary while spreading the good word, promised them that the picture would offer not merely entertainment, but education, inspiration, food for thought-in short, just about everything but salvation. ("...A story of love and lust, brutality and kindness, despair and hope, strength and weakness...