 For the scene in which Samson kills the lion, actor  Mature, Victor (qv) refused to wrestle a tame movie lion. Told by  director DeMille, Cecil B. (qv) that the lion had no teeth, Mature  replied, "I dont want to be gummed to death, either." The scene  shows a stunt man wrestling the tame lion, intercut with closeups of  Mature wrestling a lion skin.