Ben-Hur | |
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A Tale of the Christ | |
Directed by | William Wyler |
Produced by | Sam Zimbalist |
Written by | Karl Tunberg |
Starring | Charlton Heston Jack Hawkins Haya Harareet Stephen Boyd |
Music by | Miklós Rózsa |
Cinematography | Robert L. Surtees |
Editing by | John D. Dunning Ralph E. Winters |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date(s) | November 18, 1959 |
Running time | 212 min |
Country | USA |
Language | English |
Budget | $15,000,000 |
Gross revenue | $75,000,000 |
Ben-Hur is a 1959 film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and based on the novel by General Lew Wallace. One of the greatest of the epic film "spectaculars", Ben-Hur won a record 11 Academy Awards, a feat not repeated until Titanic in 1998.
The film stars Charlton Heston as Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish merchant who is sold into slavery after being betrayed by his childhood friend.