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Ben-Hur (1959)

Name: Ben-Hur
Director: William Wyler
Genre: drama film, action film, epic film
Rating: 8.1

Ben-Hur is a 1959 American religious epic film directed by William Wyler, produced by Sam Zimbalist, and starring Charlton Heston as the title character. A remake of the 1925 silent film with a similar title, it was adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The screenplay is credited to Karl Tunberg, but includes contributions from Maxwell Anderson, S. N. Behrman, Gore Vidal, and…

Directed by William Wyler · Shot by Robert L. Surtees · Cut by John Dunning · Music by Miklós Rózsa

Behind the scenes

Charlton Heston & Martin Scorsese on BEN HUR — American Film Institute · 3 min
Why Ben-Hur Still Looks Like a Trillion Bucks — wolfcrow · 11 min
Ben-Hur | On-set with Jack Huston 'Judah Ben-Hur' [Interview] — FilmIsNow Epic Movie Zone · 5 min

Elsewhere

More by William Wyler

The Stolen Ranch — 1926
Lazy Lightning — 1926
The Border Cavalier — 1927
Hard Fists — 1927
Desert Dust — 1927
The Phantom Outlaw — 1927
Straight Shootin' — 1927
Blazing Days — 1927
Thunder Riders — 1928
Anybody Here Seen Kelly? — 1928
The Love Trap — 1929
The Shakedown — 1929
Hell's Heroes — 1929
The Storm — 1930
A House Divided — 1931
Tom Brown of Culver — 1932
Her First Mate — 1933
Counsellor at Law — 1933
Glamour — 1934
The Good Fairy — 1935
The Gay Deception — 1935
Barbary Coast — 1935
These Three — 1936
Dodsworth — 1936
Come and Get It — 1936
Dead End — 1937
The Cowboy and the Lady — 1938
Jezebel — 1938
Wuthering Heights — 1939
The Westerner — 1940

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