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DVD Release Date
• R1: Mar 13, 2001
• R2: 5 Nov 2001
Budget $15,000,000
Running Time
3 hours, 32 minutes
Country USA
Studio MGM, Sam Zimbalist
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Other Titles
• Ben-Hur
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1959)
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Drama, Epic, Religion, Revenge, Period Piece, Love, Betrayal, Prison, Political, Pirate, Suspense
Tagline: The World's Most Honored Motion Picture
Plot: Anno Domini: the seventh year of Augustus Caesar’s reign. In the Roman province of Judea, Jews return to the city of their birth for the census. A bright star in the night over Bethlehem marks the birth of Jesus Christ. Years later, Roman commander Messala (Stephen Boyd), who was brought up in Judea, takes command of the Roman garrison in Jerusalem. His Jewish boyhood friend Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) greets him. Messala is delighted. But when Judah refuses to name Jewish patriots, Messala sentences him to the slave galleys and imprisons his mother, Miriam (Martha Scott), and sister, Tirzah (Cathy O’Donnell). Judah vows revenge.In BEN-HUR, William Wyler’s much-lauded epic, the story of Judah’s search for his mother and sister and his quest for revenge intersects with crucial biblical events such as the Sermon on the Mount and the crucifixion. Wyler gets fine performances from Heston, Boyd, Jack Hawkins (as a Roman admiral who befriends Judah), and Hugh Griffith (as an Arab sheik who dreams of racing his beautiful white horses against Messala). Among BEN-HUR’s vivid dramatic sequences are a violent sea battle and the famous chariot race that pits Judah against Messala in one of cinema’s great action sequences.
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| Directed by |
William Wyler
Roman Holiday, The Best Years of Our Lives, Wuthering Heights |
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| Written by |
| Karl Tunberg
Beau Brummell, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Orchestra Wives |
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| Cast |
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 | Jack Hawkins
Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Zulu |
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 | Stephen Boyd
Fantastic Voyage, The Fall of the Roman Empire, The Bible |
 | Hugh Griffith
Kind Hearts and Coronets, Oliver!, How to Steal a Million |
 | Martha Scott
The Ten Commandments, Charlotte's Web, Airport 1975 | Cathy O'Donnell
The Best Years of Our Lives, The Man from Laramie, Detective Story | |
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| Music By |
Miklós Rózsa
Double Indemnity, Spellbound, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid |
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