The numbers speak volumes – 100,000 costumes, 8,000 extras, 300 sets and a staggering budget that in its day was the largest in movie history. But impressive numbers don’t tell the whole story. Because Ben-Hur’s creators didn’t just make it big. They made it the best, the greatest Biblical-era epic ever. Charlton Heston brings a muscular physical and moral presence to the role of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine, whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, a bold escape from an embattled slave galley, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race and fateful encounters with Jesus Christ. Heston’s charismatic performance brought him the Best Actor Oscar. The winner of 1959’s Best Picture, with the legendary William Wyler earning his third Best Director trophy, the film won a total 11 Academy Awards – a tally unequalled until 1997’s Titanic set sail.
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Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet, Jack Hawkins, Cathy O’Donnell, Martha Scott, Hugh Griffith, Claude Heater, Sam Jaffe, Frank Thing, Finlay Currie, George Relph, Terence Longdon, Andre Morell, Cliff Lyons, Howard Lang, Jerry Brown, Michael Dugan, John Horsley, Remington Olmsted, Tutte Lemkow, Ralph Truman, Laurence Payne, Richard Coleman, Dervis Ward, Hector Ross, Antonio Corevi, Aldo Pini, Charlton Heston, Stella Rho, Anna Kamenkova, Vladimir Antonik, Venantino Venantini, Yuri Sarantsev, Vladimir Vikhrov, William S. Hart, Fortunato Arena, Furio Meniconi, Nazzareno Zamperia, Umberto Silvestri, Ferdinando Poggi, Alfio Caltabiano, Armando Annuale, Emma Baron, Giuseppe Tosi, Nello Appodia, Alfred Thomas, Nona Medici, Bruno Arie, Eddie Juaregui, Amerigo Santarelli.
