Another example, as Martin Scorsese has noted on television, is in the 1959 Ben-Hur.

* November 18 – MGM's widescreen, multimillion dollar, Technicolor version of Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston, is released and becomes the studio's greatest hit up to that time.

* Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is an 1880 novel by American general and author Lew Wallace

Of his novels and biographies, he is best known for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ( 1880 ), a bestselling book since its publication, and called " the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century.

Heston is known for heroic roles in films such as The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur ( for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor ), El Cid, and Planet of the Apes.

Ben-Hur — filmed around the same time — contains two-tone sequences but is shot primarily in black-and-white with tinting and toning in many scenes.

He is a good friend of Judah Ben-Hur's Roman adoptive father Quintus Arrius, but he reminds Ben-Hur that he wields the emperor's own authority to keep peace in Judea.

Later examples appear in Ben-Hur ( 1925 ) and in Cecil B. DeMille ’ s Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ) and Cleopatra ( 1934 ), although the execution of the gesture is still variable.

Upon the film's release, Bosley Crowther wrote " it is hard to remember a picture — not excluding Henry V, Ivanhoe, Helen of Troy and, naturally, Ben-Hur — in which scenery and regal rites and warfare have been so magnificently assembled and photographed as they are in this dazzler ... The pure graphic structure of the pictures, the imposing arrangement of the scenes, the dynamic flow of the action against strong backgrounds, all photographed with the 70-mm.

The scene where Kearney beats a drum to make the campers work in the sweatshop is taken from the slave galley scene in the 1959 film Ben-Hur.

" The Cathy Eckhardt Story " ( fourth season, broadcast November 9, 1960 ) clearly shows the year is 1870, but in " The Charlene Brenton Story " ( late third season, broadcast 8 June 1960 ) reference is made to Bill Hawks ' having read the novel Ben-Hur, which was not published until 1880.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published on November 12, 1880 by Harper & Brothers.

As far as it goes, this confession is broad and unqualified, and it ought and would be sufficient were it not that books of mine — Ben-Hur and The Prince of India — have led many persons to speculate concerning my creed ....

The giving a cup of water to Ben-Hur at the well near Nazareth is the only violation of this rule ...

Judah Ben-Hur is a prince descended from a royal family of Judaea.

Esther, Simonides and Malluch talk together, and conclude that Ben-Hur is who he claims to be, and that he is on their side in the fight against Rome.

For Ben-Hur, Simonides bribes Sejanus to remove the prefect Valerius Gratus from his post, who is succeeded by Pontius Pilate.

Understanding the betrayal, Ben-Hur is spotted by a priest who tries to take him into custody ; he breaks away and flees.

Ben-Hur is shocked at how his supporters have deserted Christ in his time of need.

In the tenth year of Emperor Nero's reign, Ben-Hur is staying with Simonides, whose business has been successful.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ is a 1925 silent film directed by Fred Niblo.

Ben-Hur is a wealthy Jew and boyhood friend of the powerful Roman Tribune, Messala.

Ben-Hur is sent to work in the galley of a Roman warship.

This was used in the 1959 film Ben-Hur, which was filmed with the MGM Camera 65 process at an aspect ratio of 2. 76: 1, one of the widest prints ever made.

Photographs show several scenes using the gesture, including one of Ben-Hur greeting a seated sheik and another of a small crowd so greeting Ben-Hur in his chariot.

The Shaggy Dog was one of the top movies of 1959, and actually grossed higher than Ben-Hur.

He was also one of the writers of the classic 1959 film, Ben-Hur, directed by William Wyler.

There, Ben-Hur finds his old rival Messala racing one of the chariots, preparing for a tournament.

During the next three years, Jesus preaches his gospel around Galilee, and Ben-Hur becomes one of his followers.

Ben Hur is a 15 minute long 1907 silent film, the first film version of Lew Wallace's novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, one of the best-selling books at that time.

Lippizan horses, like this one in Spain, were used for chariot teams in Ben-Hur.

In 1925, Niblo was the principal director of the epic Ben-Hur that was one of the most expensive films of the day but became the third highest grossing silent film in cinema history.

* Gaspar one of the three Magi mentioned in the famous novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace.

They had four children together, one of whom was Lew Wallace, author of the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ and Governor of New Mexico Territory.

Nickolas Haydock suggests that " Surely one of the hardest film genres to define is that of the " epic " film, encompassing such examples as Ben-Hur, Gone with the Wind .... and more recently, 300 and the Star Wars films ... none of these comes from literary epics per se, and there is little that links them with one another.

He later began to appear in Hollywood film epics, including the 1951 Quo Vadis ( as Saint Peter ), the multi-Oscar winning 1959 Ben-Hur, as Balthazar, one of the Three Magi, and The Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1964 ) as an aged, wise senator.

To the present day, the 1959 Ben-Hur remains the last MGM film to win a Best Picture Oscar, though Doctor Zhivago, another MGM film, was nominated in 1965.

** Ben-Hur ( 1925 film ), an MGM silent film starring Ramon Novarro

** Ben-Hur ( 1959 film ), an MGM sound film starring Charlton Heston that won 11 Academy Awards

However, dissatisfied with the quality of the films he was offered, calling the studios " a Tiffany, which had forgotten how to make silver ", Nielsen left MGM, but not before auditioning for the role of Messala in the 1959 historical piece Ben-Hur.

MGM Records also issued albums of film scores, including Ben-Hur, King of Kings, Doctor Zhivago, and How the West Was Won.

Other popular scores that he composed for MGM pictures include Quo Vadis ( 1951 ), Ivanhoe ( 1952 ), Ben-Hur, King of Kings and The V. I. P. s.

Following release of the 1959 MGM film adaptation of Ben-Hur, which was seen by tens of millions and won 11 Academy Awards in 1960, book sales surpassed Gone with the Wind.

* Ben-Hur ( 1925 film ), an MGM silent film starring Ramon Novarro

* Ben-Hur ( 1959 film ), an MGM sound film starring Charlton Heston

Poster for the Ben-Hur ( 1925 film ) | 1925 MGM film adaptation of Ben-Hur

" Although audiences flocked to Ben-Hur after its premiere in 1925 and the picture grossed $ 9 million worldwide, its huge expenses and the deal with Erlanger made it a net financial loss for MGM.

MGM originally announced a remake of Ben-Hur in December 1952, ostensibly as a way to spend its Italian assets.

In a gamble to save the studio, and inspired by the success of Paramount Pictures ' 1956 Biblical epic The Ten Commandments, studio head Joseph Vogel announced in 1957 that MGM would again move forward on a remake of Ben-Hur.

In fact, despite conducting screen tests and engaging in other pre-production work for Ben-Hur, Wyler did not agree to direct the film until September 1957, and MGM did not announced his hiring until January 3, 1958.

1957's Raintree County and Ben-Hur were the first MGM films to use the process.

In addition, to provide a more " listenable " album, Rózsa arranged his score into a " Ben-Hur Suite ", which was released on Lion Records ( an MGM subsidiary which issued low-priced records ) in 1959.

MGM established a special " Ben-Hur Research Department " which surveyed more than 2, 000 high schools in 47 American cities to gauge teenage interest in the film.

After appearing in more than three dozen films, McAvoy co-starred with Ramón Novarro and Francis X. Bushman in director Fred Niblo's 1925 production of Ben-Hur released by MGM.

* Ben-Hur ( 1925 MGM )(* Extant )

In the Golden Age of Hollywood, MGM Studios was responsible for shooting 52 films a year, from screen epics such as Gone with the Wind ( although it was shot in the Culver Studios ), Ben-Hur, and Mutiny on the Bounty, to drawing-room dramas such as Grand Hotel, Dinner At Eight, and Anna Karenina.