Trivia

With the massive exterior sets, lavish interior sets and a multitude of Asian extras left over from Marco Polo (1962), Panda Productions had writers Oreste Biancoli and Duccio Tessari fashion a sword-and-sandal/mythological muscleman epic - a genre that had become highly popular around the world - placing hero Maciste in a Chinese setting. Genre specialist Riccardo Freda was brought in to direct, Gordon Scott was cast as Maciste (renamed "Samson" for the U.S. version) and Yôko Tani was kept on as the female lead.

American International Pictures, as with several of their imports, assigned staff composer Les Baxter to re-score much of the film, but retained a substantial amount of music from the original Italian score. The main title, for example, is by Carlo Innocenzi, whilst the end title is a re-working of Baxter's "I Did It All For Her" track from Marco Polo (1962). The rest of the score is a mix of contributions from both composers.

British distributor Anglo-Amalgamated submitted the American International dubbed version Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World to the British Board of Film Censors who decided on certificate "U" (after certain cuts) on 14 February 1963. Anglo and co-distributor Warner-Pathé shortened the release title to Samson and the 7 Miracles and it opened in London on 13 January 1964 at ABC's Prince of Wales, Harrow Road. The chosen supporting feature was Danish monster movie Reptilicus (1961).

Italian censorship visa # 35995 delivered on 25-10-1961.