Samson, an Israelite whose enormous strength is legendary, falls in love with Zorah, a Philistine, and marries her, overcoming his father Manoah's objections.
Delilah
Zorah, Samson's wife
Sister of Zorah
A Philistine lad
Samson, an Israelite whose enormous strength is legendary, falls in love with Zorah, a Philistine, and marries her, overcoming his father Manoah's objections.
1914-04-30
10
The story of the strongest man that ever lived. A tremendous "Six Reel" production that will hold your rapt attention from start to finish.
Revealed by an angel of the Lord as the one who will deliver the Israelites from the rule of the Philistines, Samson is granted supernatural strength that allows him to do heroic feats. However, through the frailties of his humanity, he is seduced by Philistine Delilah into telling the secret of his great strength.
A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.
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