| Released | December 8-11, 1996 |
| Duration | 172 minutes (two parts) |
| Director | Nicolas Roeg |
| Written by | Allan Scott Massimo De Rita, Simone De Rita (treatment) |
| Music | Marco Frisina Ennio Morricone (end title music) |
| Studio | Turner Pictures |
Samson fights a Creature Shop lion
Samson and Delilah is a 1996 TV movie, one of a series of Italian/US co-productions based on The Biblical stories, broadcast on TNT in two parts. For the sequence in which Samson fights a lion, Jim Henson's Creature Shop supplied a lion for certain stunt scenes (intercut with an actual lion named Sudan).
Cast[]
- Eric Thal as Samson
- Elizabeth Hurley as Delilah
- Dennis Hopper as General Tariq
- Diana Rigg as Mara
- Michael Gambon as King Hanum
- Daniel Massey as Ira
- Paul Freeman as Manoah
- Ben Becker as Prince Sidqa
- Jale Arikan as Naomi
Creature Shop credits[]
- Animatronic creature by Jim Henson's Creature Shop
- Mechanical lion: Verner Gresty, Simon Hewitt, Tacy Kneale, David Dunsterville