Delilah Agonistes" and Cecil B. DeMille's 1949 Hollywood film "Samson and Delilah". Her name has become associated with treacherous and voluptuous women. Delilah was a woman of Sorek. She is the only woman in Samson's story who is named. The Bible says that Samson loved her () but not that she loved him. The two were not married and the idea that they had a sexual relationship is, in the words of Josey Bridges Snyder, "at most implicit in the biblical text". The lords of the Philistines bribed her to discover the source of Samson's great strength, each offering to give
Samson and Delilah (1984 film) Samson and Delilah (1984 film) Samson and Delilah is a 1984 television film adaptation of the biblical story of Samson and Delilah, starring Max von Sydow, Belinda Bauer, Antony Hamilton, Daniel Stern and Victor Mature. Mature played Samson in the 1949 film and had a small cameo as the father of Antony Hamilton's Samson. This was his final acting role. Based on the novel "Husband of Delilah" by Eric Linklater, "Samson and Delilah" originally aired on ABC. The film is mostly the same as the original Biblical story, but with notable differences such as, once again, the expanded and sympathetic