Samson and Delilah 1949

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: If you'll settle for gold-plated pageants, for muscular episodes and for graphic inducements to wolf-whistling, then "Samson and Delilah" is for you. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: Wonderfully chintzy and hokey Bible epic once described as the only film in which the hero had bigger tits than the heroine. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Cecil B. DeMille has again dipped into the Bible for his material, made appropriately dramatic revisions in the original, and turned up with a DeMille-size smash. Read more