Ben-Hur

I own over 2,000 movies on DVD or VHS. I have gone to many many more movies that have not been worthy of my collection, thus my exposure to film has been extensive. I mention this because through every film... Full review

Wow, what can you say about a film that won 11 Academy Awards back in the days where the best films actually were honored, not the garbage they salute today.In other words, this film lives up to its reputation and... Full review

I have seen Ben-Hur (I also like the 1925 version very much) I don't know how many times now. I think I have stopped counting seven years ago. I never tire to see this movie and, needless to say, I... Full review

It's hard to deny that William Wyler's lavish version of "Ben-Hur" is sometimes a bit overdone, but it nevertheless remains an entertaining and worthwhile classic. The material does justify the big-budget approach, since the story contains several interesting themes as... Full review

I think I can safely say that in my opinion, this is the best movie ever made. Its dramatic value is fantastic, and I've never seen a better storyline. The costumes were also incredible. The actors portrayed the best purest... Full review

Ben Hur, a Tale of the Christ, was hugely popular as a novel, a play and two movies. It was written in a less vulgar time about a very spiritual event. Seen today by moviegoers addicted to constant action and... Full review

"Ben-Hur" is a dominant Best Picture Oscar winner that is perhaps more impressive now than it was when it was first released in 1959. Charlton Heston (Oscar-winning) stars as a rich Jewish nobleman during the time of Jesus Christ who... Full review

What can you say about this film? It has everything, magnificent script, superb acting ,and the most famous chariot race in Hollywood history. Although the chariot race is the centrepiece of this spectacular ,it is by no means the only... Full review

One of the best epics, this is a story of the friendship between two young boys. Eventually they grow up to be enemies and end up hating each other, one being Jewish and the other one Roman.One could easily assume... Full review

With his distinctive visual style and a taste for solemn material, William Wyler was meticulously individualistic director, triple winner of the Best Picture Oscar... As a devoted artist, he showed visual clarity and sensitive portrayal of character, dignifying melodrama, epic and... Full review

Unfortunately, they and the other major characters are frequently hidden by the portable scaffolding towers of the set, or swamped by the action around them.....Betrayed by his Roman friend Messala, Jewish prince Judah Ben Hur loses his mother, sister and lover.... ... Full Review

The movie won 11 Academy Awards (it only lost in screenplay adaptation). According to Variety , David Wyler's $30 million production will be more faithful to the original Lew Wallace novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ , which was written in 1880. ... Full Review

There was a segment about Ben-Hur, how Wyler couldn't figure out where Masala's hate for Ben-Hur came from when they had been such close childhood friends, that the political angle wasn't convincing enough. The whole movie has a religious aspect. ... Full Review

is considered by some to be the greatest motion picture of all time.....Not only was Heston a great actor but a great mind.....Acting was his passion as he bragged he had acted on every continent except Antarctica..... ... Full Review

As a marquee natural, the name Charlton Heston easily filled the bill when it came to signifying an epic star whose mere presence could bankroll a costly movie extravaganza. The other candidate would be 1959's Ben-Hur , a gamble that saved MGM from bankruptcy while taking 11 Oscars (best picture and Heston's own included). ... Full Review

The voice of the director, slightly weary, booms across the ISS Dome, in D?sseldorf. "A little more wailing, prisoners!" Then another voice translates this into Russian, then another into Czech, then another into Polish, then another into Hungarian. ... Full Article

That said, the evidence is stacked heavily against this floppy-haired impresario, also known as Hair Flick thanks to a compulsive nervous habit of continuously back-handing an undisciplined forelock. ... Full Article

Ben-Hur: 50th Anniversary Three-Disc Collector's Edition, Warner Home Video, PG, ?15.99 By DAMIAN TULLY-POINTON - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 Ben-Hur: 50th Anniversary Five decades has not wearied the sweeping saga of Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston, magnificent), who overcomes a wrongful... ... Full Article

London's 02 Arena will this year play host to the production of Charlton Heston's film about the life and loves of a Jewish prince - featuring chariot races. ... Full Article

Actors in Ben Hur Live will learn their lines and follow in the footsteps of Mel Gibson's big-screen The Passion Of The Christ by using the languages spoken in Judaea of the 1st Century AD instead of English. ... Full Article

Joseph Morgan has reportedly been cast as the leading man in the forthcoming Ben-Hur miniseries. The Welsh actor will portray the role made famous by late actor Charlton Heston in the 1959 film, and will be joined in the four-hour... ... Full Article