Ben-Hur, 1959. Directed by William Wyler. Starring Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Cathy O’Donnell, and Sam Jaffe. SYNOPSIS: Warner Bros.

This 1959 version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, which had already seen screen versions in 1907 and 1926, went on to win 11 Academy Awards. Adapted by Karl Tunberg and a raft of uncredited ...

Charleton Heston in a scene from Ben-Hur. The new movie version of Ben-Hur that’s about to land in theaters, featuring Morgan Freeman, isn’t just a reimagining of one classic movie. The hit 1880 Lew ...

Woodland Park, N.J. — No surprise that Ben-Hur has come back to the movies (the latest remake opened Friday ). In some ways, you could say Ben-Hur created the movies. The Biblical-era story of the ...

There are a number of things missing from the new movie “Ben-Hur” — Quintus Arrius, functioning tripods, a discernible point — but nothing perhaps so notable as the words “A Tale of the Christ.” That ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Watch scenes from the original Ben-Hur in this excerpt from the 1980 documentary series Hollywood, directed by film historian ...

The old adage “they don’t make ‘em like they used to” applies more aptly to 1959’s Ben-Hur than almost any film of its era. An epic on a scale never before seen, it survives now like a Hollywood time ...

The first two major big-screen versions of “Ben-Hur” were huge hits, with the second one, from 1959, winning 11 Oscars, including Best Picture. The third time’s definitely not the charm with the ...

Steven Spielberg's 'The BFG' and fellow Disney release 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' are other giant-sized summer tentpoles racking up major losses. By Pamela McClintock Senior Film Writer Ben-Hur ...

In a summer with few outright bombs (but plenty of relative disappointments), Ben-Hur is probably going to be a disaster. The MGM and Paramount/Viacom Inc. release opened with (as of this writing) $11 ...

The latest big-screen iteration of the beloved epic was directed by Timur Bekmanbetov ('Wanted') and stars Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell and Morgan Freeman. By Todd McCarthy What’s the point of making a ...