In an interview, Hal Roach stated that he, Harold Lloyd, and Frank Borzage were extras in this film. This has been confirmed by a photograph from the production.
       The 14 November 1913 Variety reported that Katherine [sic] Kerrigan would be playing "Delilah" opposite her brother "Jack" Warren Kerrigan "in the U's new forthcomer, Samson and Delilah." It would be the stage actress's first film appearance. A month and a half later, the 3 January 1914 Motion Picture News noted that the film, now planned as a four-reel motion picture with the title shortened to Samson, was "well along." It was one of six productions being shot simultaneously at the huge Universal City studio, which had "a mammoth stage, one block in length."
       According to the 7 February 1914 Motography, Samson was "at last completed. The crowning scene, where Samson pulls the pillars apart so that the Temple falls and crushes the people within was left to the last, and after many hours' rehearsal was taken with remarkable results." Many of the intertitles were passages from the Old Testament.
       An article in the 28 March 1914 Motion Picture News announced that Samson was being heavily advertised from coast to coast. Hundreds of extras were used during filming. The writer observed that during the final scene of the temple's destruction, "The huge pillars, the roof and accompanying debris seem to fall directly on the heads of the crowd while they scatter in a vain attempt to reach safety. Just how many were actually injured in this scene is not of record, but a number must have been." An article in the March 1914 Ilustrated Films Monthly played up the story that a lion used in the film attacked and mauled J. Warren Kerrigan, and would have killed him if director J. Farrell MacDonald hadn't fired a bullet into the beast's heart. The lion, a member of the Universal City Menageries, had never "shown any signs of temper, and it was considered the most docile." The animal had apparently objected to being doped with a hypodermic needle just before the scene in which Samson was to grab it by the jaws and toss it aside.
       An item in the 27 February 194 Variety noted that Universal had "decreed" that, due to high production costs and a length of six reels, theaters could not charge less than twenty-five cents for admission to Samson.
       The 20 March 1914 Variety repeated a "main criticism" that J. Warren Kerrigan "is hardly big enough for the portrayal of so tremendous a monster of physical strength. As one representative of the Universal facetiously remarked, the roles of Samson and Delilah might have been transposed. Miss Kerrigan is apparently a bigger person, physically, than her brother."
       Cecil B. DeMille directed a film entitled Samson and Delilah in 1949 for Paramount which starred Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr.
       The National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included Samson on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films as of January 2021.