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Ben-Hur (Anniversary Edition) (2-DVD)
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DVD Details
- Rated: G
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 3 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 13, 2001
- Originally Released: 1959
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Charlton Heston | |
Performer: | Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Cathy O'Donnell, Sam Jaffe, Finlay Currie, Frank Thring, Terence Longdon, André Morell & George Relph | |
Directed by | William Wyler | |
Edited by | Ralph E. Winters & John D. Dunning | |
Written by | Karl Tunberg | |
Composition by | Miklos Rozsa | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Surtees |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1959 -
Best Actor: Charlton Heston
Academy Awards 1959 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (Color): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1959 -
Best Cinematography: Robert Surtees
Academy Awards 1959 -
Best Costume Design (Color): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1959 -
Best Director: William Wyler
Academy Awards 1959 -
Best Film Editing: John D. Dunning & Ralph E. Winters
Academy Awards 1959 -
Best Original Score: Miklos Rozsa
Academy Awards 1959 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
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Best Sound: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1959 -
Best Sound Effects: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1959 -
Best Special Effects: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1959 -
Best Supporting Actor: Hugh Griffith
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
Although it is a spectacle film, the story of how a man takes on the tyranny of the Romans, with all sorts of horrible consequences to himself and his family, is powerful and gripping.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
William Wyler never lets spectacle and size interfere with the elemental passions and conflicts of his human story. The spectacular aspects emerge naturally from the story -- the time and place and the customs of the society in which the characters live.
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Hollywood Reporter
Entire new frontiers in boredom were opened up by this MGM whopper from 1959.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 5/10 --
The most egregiously boring movie ever graced with the Best Picture Oscar... though in fairness, egregious boredom is one of the cornerstones of the Bible epic genre.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Watching it was like waiting at a railroad crossing while an interminable freight train lumbers past, often stopping completely for a while.
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Esquire Magazine
Rating: A- --
[VIDEO ESSAY] It's worth sitting through four hours of Charlton Heston's hammy pregnant pauses of strained dialogue and toothy grimaces just to savor the legendary larger-than-life marathon where single rider chariots...
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ColeSmithey.com
Rating: 3/5 --
1959 Biblical epic has fierce blood-spilling, cruelty.
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Common Sense Media
Product Description:
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.
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.
Keywords:
Action
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Adventure
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Bible Epic
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Classic
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Religion
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Epic
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Recommended
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Period Piece
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Ancient World
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema
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Based On A Novel
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 116,970
- UPC: 012569550629
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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