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Though his people, the Israelites, are enslaved by the Philistines, Samson (Victor Mature), strongest man of the tribe of Dan, falls in love with the Philistine Semadar (Dame Angela Lansbury), whom he wins by virtue of a contest of strength. But Semadar betrays him, and Samson engages in a fight with her real love, Ahtur (Henry Wilcoxon), and his soldiers. Semadar is killed, and her sister Delilah (Hedy Lamarr), who had loved Samson in silence, now vows vengeance against him. She plans to seduce Samson into revealing the secret of his strength and then to betray him to the Philistine leader, The Saran of Gaza (George Sanders) 

There was a time when the Biblical epic was a staple of Hollywood, a sure-fire moneymaker, and amongst the best-made movies around. Films like The Ten Commandments and The Robe lifted studio revenues and lifted audience spirits alike. Not preachy but certainly inspired by a higher purpose, these films revered their sources. Audiences, in turn, revered the pictures. That double-sided reverence has left an indelible mark on the cinema landscape, proof that quality filmmaking, meaningful storytelling, and high viewership all go hand-in-hand. And those sorts of movies, and that sort of audience-movie symbiosis, are no longer the antiquated properties of the 1950s. The Biblical epic is making a fairly strong comeback these days. The TV miniseries The Bible captured a huge number of small-screen viewers. Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ saw believers and non-believers alike flock to cinemas. Son of God seems primed to find a similarly sized audience. There was, and remains, an unmistakable thirst for Biblically based entertainment, and the wonder of Blu-ray has made it easier than ever before to enjoy the classics and the newcomers both in quality of presentations that come as close to mimicking they way they looked on release day as modern media allows, be that release day six months ago or sixty years ago. Cecil B. DeMille's decades-old Samson and Delilah arrives on Blu-ray in one such modern package, beautifully restored and ready to not only entertain an audience that's obviously hungry for spiritually inspired filmmaking but also to share one of the Bible's most captivating tales of action, love, lust, and faith in pristine 1080p high definition video.