
Here is a clip from the very rare "Wakefield Poole's Bible," a 1973 feature that came right after the enormous successes of Poole's films "Boys in the Sand" and "Bijou." It was a financial disaster and disappeared from screens within weeks of its release, rarely to be seen since. "Bible" is NOT a porn film, though it does have nudity, and that is one of the reasons for its failure to capture an audience at the time. Audiences saw Poole's name and that fact that Georgina Spelvin was in it and wanted hard core porn. Instead, "Bible" is a lavish, visually gorgeous tone poem of a film, telling three Bible stories from the women's point of view. There is no dialog, only musical accompaniment. Not exactly box office gold in 1973 (or today). In the Samson and Delilah sequence, we see the bully Samson murdering Delilah's servant for trying to steal his knife. As part of working on my documentary "Dirty Poole" about Wakefield Poole's life and work, I digitally remastered Bible from one of the two surviving prints (no negative exists) and had a scene-by-scene color correction done. The result lets this criminally under appreciated and rarely seen film shine.
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