Movie
1959
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…
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“Epic” is the word that is, for most people, associated with films. This could be dated to the 1950s, when Hollywood, faced with the existential threat of the emerging medium of television, tried to provide audiences with colour, new exciting picture formats, visual splendour, spectacle and other things that could not be enjoyed as black-and-white images on tiny television sets. The result of those efforts was a ser…More
Sorry for Timur Bekmambetov. I knew him in another light. In fact, these two sentences are a comprehensive feature of the historical action-drama "Ben-Hur". It is clear that the craft of modern classics can not overcome William Wyler's unique 1959 record holder, which became the second most profitable movie in all-time cinema history (after "Gone with the Wind") and held that position quite time, and his 11 Oscar Aw…More
