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SEE Samson
tricked by Delilah! Crail B. DeMilles Masterpièce
Samson and Delilah
Colur by TECHNICOLOR
HEDY LAMARR VICTOR MATURE: GEORGE SANDERS
ANGELA LANSBURY HENRY WILCOXON
Produced and Directed by Cecil B. BaMille
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It's
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a colossal epic out of the Book of Judges
"DeMille, who loves to unite romance and religion
on the screen, has found the perfect plot in the story of Samson and Delllah. In full measure and overflowing, the story is in Chapters 13 to 16 of the Book of Judges, so full of hate, passion, frailty, treachery, murder and violence that even Biblical scholars have been said to question its place in the Holy Book.
"But the story is there and DeMille has taken full advantage of it, with enthusinsm...
So have tho Lee and Liberty Theatres which are being booked full for the evening performances by early afternoon for titis Intest of DeMille's epics from the best-selling book in the world.
The paragraphs the lead to
that supply thl review are iaken from Paramount Pictures'
advance publicity on this eple
Epic pains
DeMille took alor with this story, one of the few that he
The cilmax is slowly bulit up and not an effect is missed, not a scene waste. The festivities before the sacrifice in all their barbarte splendour are minutely outlined. Everything parish and spectacular that could be confirmed by archaeological evidence
or built up out of DeMille's fruitful Imagination is rolled up.
Logical enough
If the picture will not remain
д
of a fabulously strong Israelite in the memory of those who see who fell to tho wiles of ait for anything else, the logical fabulously beadut Pantsune. manner in which the temple is
polled down ever will. Not scene that could have accom- ponied such
man-made cataclysm is missed and the asks audience not to miss. It rest lovingly on the.
in Technicolour and
details. settings are as gaudy as genera- best. Those who have seen the As a film it le not DeMille's tions of estrators of Hible Bible stories of silent films in
tories for children have
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the
sociated with how the Israeille teir epis tons may argue that and Philistine world lived,
sapio effect is better Chan as a medium for Teclinicolour Nor.
Land, Holy L
eple effect, however, the
Yet neither Mature
Weissmuller, who could have
done just
.
well
Samson by
the
For
SAMSON AND DELILAH
ue, has ever produced. They BRITAIN HAS PRACTICALLY
and is more experienced at picture's last few minutes are lighting lions, fit into the pat- the best that DeMille, or any- tern. For the role of Samen, are, indeed, colossal, stupendous, the geufal Victor ia rather nature where the effect on man agileent and whatever other ndjectives the trailers muy $3.50 of passing centuries Kork No think up.
men, he
maiter the make-up 2.40 still looks a typleni New York 1.50 boy
one would sooner expect 10 meet in the Bronx or Brooklyn.
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In one respect Mature fits in- to the role. He looks as much
the riddle-offering smart aleck
as the Book of Judges makes Samson out to be.
That Samson could have fallen In to profound desire for Delilah seems logical enough | when one views that which is
more beautiful than the moon over Zorah or the starllt waters ef the Jordan-Hedy Lamarr,
MIT.
Background
NO GENUINE FILM STARS Says Harold. Conway
For years British studios have been trying to build up new film stars on the Holly-
ink
point: are British bms suffer- because this star-policy they are doing excellently with has collapsed? Not at all
to Samson wood model glamourised ut th: big names.
& to Delilah
SAMSON
He was
and over-publicised as {0}} insurance against the pic- tures being bad.
1
Culled from biographical
So inconsistent, misguided material supplied through efforts proved that today jand ineffective have these the courtesy of Paramount Britain has practically no It is a debatable point that Pictures: the original Delilah looked any-
genuine film stars at all. thing like this beauty trum
We have rare sinr-appear- Vienna, Had DeMille
(Victor Mature) been reeking
ances "Vic set Histrionic don blue years ago, genuine
by Margaret Lock- a course for star-wood and Phyllis Calvert, talent to do well by Delilah, he fresh from "Lady in the Dark" by artists like Olivier and could have given Bette Davis over to the make-up men and Broadway, and barely known Celia Johnson. We have they could have turned out allywood. He set out on a periodic returns of Holly- raven-haired example of Phili
self- tine attraction that would, per-
wood-based British actors: that haps, have not been
Mature and many fine performances as fresh a breeze wafted from Hebron
of star standing. but would have left one more convincingly intoxicated with dramatic
punch.
*** her most dramatic,
of
prove
programme Hollywood glorification to
without was an ulurdily.
"He plays his roles straight |
But where are the regu- and
sincere. "I'm playinglar, proved stars, whose Samison the same way," he says. "Folks Kel the ides that Samson names will draw the public Viennes
brute, a kind of Muscular to any film? accent
Their value which is
The worse than the
way Mr has been dissipated in tuo as him figured-and I American accent of the Philis-
many bad seripts, too many fues. The choice of Mature isagree-he was a big
big guy with One spectacular failing he had wanderings off into other could associate with de Biblical eye for a girl. He was both entertainment fields. too
judge and a fool, a guy with much heart as soft as a kitten and their pictures
nervous hiding of from the
even
qlso open to
criticisin
C more dour per-
ment."
u all there is no as big as his chest suggestion that Samson
was anywhere in the nature of LL Goliath, Nor is there one that he was a gym-trained health boy.
Rock thrower.
in
DELILAH
measure-
(Hedy Lamarr) "Hedy was picked by DeMine for the role of the
Philistine seen her beauty, Delilah, Inter he had Tondeleya In
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One can even accept him as father small
slature. While Cargo," toughened from throwing rocks
"Anyone who has seen her at passing wolves that snarled
mirceas Delilah knows she is
the 1100
at his sheep. It is not impossible unsettling eyeful us
£421
to imagine Edward G, Robinson, 15. C. trollop who gives a chimp
could the make-up department
name of Samson a very rough
make young
"Though claim a Philistine bride, in the customed
frugal, she is e- role. There Is
to Juxury-usunity suggestion in
weare a single Judges that Sanson was still
Strand pear! young when he performed his ecklace for sport...can't dance
the feats of strength and havoc.
rhumba or the La Conga, The question
American is - would
sricht become Robinson and Davis, who could sophisticated in life too early," have
she says....Hedy knows made a much better value of a dollar, dramatle job of the story, draw
Her chet the ramme crowds that are pack-
concern is security." ing the Lee and Liberty Theatres?
him look sufliciently to be on his way to time of it.
way to
Old Man DeMille is a much unarter picture-maker than to have taken such a risk. With
At 2.30, 5.30.Robinson and Davis he may
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have drawa appreciative plaudits from cities in tha zophisticated le magazines. With Mature and Lamarr hin draws in the shricels.
Illustrations
IP's even Gaid that future editions of Bible stories for children will have the Season and Delilah chaper illustrated by Mr Delille's permission- from this vehicle of vehicles for Mature and Lamarr, this most spectacular and terrific, colossal film eple out of the Book nt Judges.
One has lo admit that DeMille can really turn out a scene that Is colossal, stupendous, lestine, astounding, and whatever other words a trailer has ever claimed for a fun,
The scene In which Samson pulls down the lermple of Dagon bullt up with the hand of a mister epic-weaver. It may be said that DeMille rather hurried over the rest of the lim. It
is patchy enough though an
attempt Samson's story and his attrac Hon for Delilah more logical than the Book of Judges makes
Is made to make
It is after Samson is blinded and the picture starts on its last half-hour that the DeMille! genlus becomes truly discernible, i
DEMILLE
the
West End,
Above. all there
has been disastrously cheap publicity for some promising youngsters at carly a slaze in their cureers.
(In this discussion we will dir gard, not averlook, Anna Neagle, who is an exception to any rule.)
But here
is the significant
More Comfort
Patrons at the Lee Theatre may notice Dist It is a Mile more dimeult to hook a sent, especially in the Dress Circle. this is due to the fact that the theatre's seating arrangement is short of DJ chal.
The rats have been upholster- ed, with a rubber benè put in, and are now 22 inches wide. four more than
they
were formerly.
TAKES
PAINS
Veteran director Cecil B. DeMille, 67, demonstrates for a group of extras how to protect themselves with a
shield when a granite slab falls on them.
They made money
Think of some of the besi money
makers: "Whisky
"They Galore,"
Усто Not Divided," "The "The Wooden House," Happiest Days of Your Life- and tow "Seven Days Noon No top-line star name
Blue he
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any of them audiences have been flociting in because they want to ser good stories and dirction, not stars.
To put truth before gallan- try, it is a number of the pro- ductions with star names which have been doing poor business In the past year.
Pictures like "The Third Man" and "State Secret" have certainly contained some big- ish names, mostly imported. That was a box-offies safeguard for the American market. But, I guarantee that these thrillers would have been equally suc- ressful without any star in- fusions.
Here, then, Is a new, In- vigorating, element in British fm1 production. Producers c} { } now say: "This is a fine! story: who is the most suitable actress for the Trading role?" Irriend of: "Here we have Miss X under contract and
nothing: we
must And some story with a big star role for her.
doing
The
new way
promises a rauch higher standard ot picture to come and at a more economical cost,
£20.000 to £30,000 a your calories like the slars who could
once demand them-have vanished.
Som: of the
stars may not Jke it. But this change of picy will help them in the Tong run; for it should prove the saving of the industry.
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