Trivia / Samson and Delilah

• Adaptation Overdosed: Here we go:
  • Two Hollywood films, including Cecil B. DeMille's 1949 epic Samson and Delilah
  • The Italian sword-and-sandal movie Samson and His Mighty Challenge. Here Delilah is less of a villainess, cutting her husband's hair only so he won't run off and fight Hercules. They all get Gag Dubbed in Hercules Returns, with one character singing the Tom Jones song the moment Delilah answers the door, to her annoyance.
  • Two made-for-TV films
  • Three Bollywood films (including one that's a Setting Update to the present day)
  • Vladimir Jabotinsky's 1926 historical novel Samson, which got a screen credit as inspiration for the DeMille film
  • John Milton's blank verse epic poem Samson Agonistes
  • George Frederic Handel's oratorio Samson based on Milton's poem
  • Camille Saint-Saëns's opera Samson et Dalila
  • Blind Willie Johnson's Blues standard "If I Had My Way (I'd Tear This Building Down)"
  • An episode of Pinky and the Brain where Brain attempts to learn the source of Samson's strength
  • A whole lot of fine art paintings throughout history
  • Several graphic novel adaptations
• Truth in Television: The phenomenon of insects making hives in carcasses, known as bugonia, is attested elsewhere in classical literature.