| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Stephen Boyd |
Messala
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| Finlay Currie |
Balthasar
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| Hugh Griffith |
Sheik Ilderim
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| Haya Harareet |
Esther
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| Jack Hawkins |
Quintus Arrius
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| Charlton Heston |
Judah Ben Hur
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| Sam Jaffe |
Simonides
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| Cathy O'Donnell |
Tirzah
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| Martha Scott |
Miriam
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| Frank Thring |
Pontius Pilate
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Action; Adventure; Best Picture Oscar; Drama; Romance |
| Director |
William Wyler |
| Producer |
Sam Zimbalist |
| Writer |
Karl Tunberg |
| Studio |
MGM |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
G (General Audience) |
| Running Time |
212 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
| IMDb Rating |
8.1 |
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| Plot |
The World's Most Honored Motion Picture
Ben-Hur scooped an unprecedented 11 Academy Awards® in 1959 and, unlike some later rivals, richly deserved every single one. This is epic filmmaking on a scale that had not been seen before and is unlikely ever to be seen again. But it's not just running time or a cast of thousands that makes an epic, it's the subject matter, and here the subject--Prince Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) and his estrangement from old Roman pal Messala (Stephen Boyd)--is rich, detailed, and sensitively handled. Director William Wyler, who had been a junior assistant on MGM's original silent version back in 1925, never sacrifices the human focus of the story in favor of spectacle, and is aided immeasurably by Miklos Rozsa's majestic musical score, arguably the greatest ever written for a Hollywood picture. At four hours it's a long haul (especially given some of the portentous dialogue), but all in all, Ben-Hur is a great movie, best seen on the biggest screen possible. --Mark Walker |
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| Product Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
Widescreen 2.35:1 Color (Anamorphic) |
| Layers |
Dual Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
012569550629 |
| Chapters |
81 |
| Release Date |
9/14/2004 |
| Subtitles |
English; French; Portuguese; Spanish |
| Packaging |
Snap Case |
| Audio Tracks |
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
FRENCH: Dolby Digital Stereo |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Color Closed-captioned Widescreen Dolby |
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