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Released
1949 · FILM

Samson and Delilah

HISTORY'S MOST BEAUTIFUL AND TREACHEROUS WOMAN!

Directed by
Runtime
134 min
DramaFamilyHistory
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

When the strongman Samson spurns the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks revenge, leading to devastating consequences that both come to regret.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Anne BauchensShot by George BarnesScored by Victor Young

Box Office

1949 · Box office

Made its money back — grossed 3.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$11.5M

Budget$3.0M
Worldwide gross$11.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Samson und Delilahde
  • Sansón y Dalilaes
  • Samson et Dalilafr
  • Sansone e Dalilait

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