The top mistakes in Samson and Delilah http://www.moviemistakes.com/film3101 en Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:55:14 +0000 23840 In the final destruction-of-the-temple scene, the huge statue of Dagon starts to topple head first, but in later shots it is sliding towards the camera feet first. This is because director Cecil DeMille was not satisfied with the first take and had the temple re-erected then collapsed a second time. Shots from both destructions are spliced together in an exciting sequence, but rather puzzling architectually. 133982 In the big temple finale, you can see that huge blocks of stone are bouncing around as they hit the floor.