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Ben-Hur (1959)
After getting his freedom, Judah Ben Hur, a young Jewish merchant from a wealthy family, who has been betrayed by his best Roman friend, Massela, who makes a conspiracy against him and sent him to slavery, the thing that makes his rage, so he returns to his homeland after absence, in order to revenge.
January 21, 1891 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy
April 25, 1937 in Treviso, Veneto, Italy
February 22, 1924 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
27 January 1888, Cullercoats, North Tyneside, England, UK
February 28, 1906 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
April 7, 1918 in Utah, USA
April 6, 1909 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
February 21, 1929 in London, England, UK
22 September 1912, Jamesport, Missouri, USA
11 March 1916, Mainz, Germany
8 August 1905, Demerara, British Guiana
February 12, 2014
Some critics believe that William Wyler's box-office smash is no match for the 1925 silent version, but there's no denying that the race that forms the famous climax is one of the most iconic sequences in Hollywood history.
February 13, 2001
A majestic achievement, representing a superb blending of the motion picture arts by master craftsmen.
May 20, 2003
Mr. Wyler and his money-free producers have smartly and effectively laid stress on the powerful and meaningful personal conflicts that are strong in this old heroic tale.
February 23, 2014
At 212 minutes it is far too long, and large swathes of the action appear redundant or unnecessary. "Bigger than Ben-Hur!" they say. That may not be a compliment.
January 01, 2015
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.
July 25, 2015
[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...
December 13, 2006
Entire new frontiers in boredom were opened up by this MGM whopper from 1959.
September 09, 2014
1959 Biblical epic has fierce blood-spilling, cruelty.
January 26, 2006
The movie could be trying to say that for some people religion is an escape from their sexuality, but it seems unlikely.
June 05, 2002
If we later came to realize that movies could be a whole lot better than Ben-Hur, that still doesn't detract from the enjoyment the film still provides.
August 22, 2008
The biggest and the best of Hollywood's super-spectacles.
December 06, 2016
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.