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.

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.

However, films shot at aspect ratios of 2. 20: 1, 2. 35: 1, 2. 39: 1, 2. 55: 1, and especially 2. 76: 1 ( Ben-Hur for example ) might still be problematic when displayed on televisions of any type ( though connoisseurs of films might dispute this ).

He also worked as an assistant director on several large-scale international productions shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome, notably Quo Vadis ( 1951 ) and Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), financially backed by the American studios.

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.

* November 18-William Wyler's film Ben-Hur premieres at Loews Theater in New York City.

Copeland wrote the score for an updated theatrical presentation of chariot-racing saga Ben-Hur, premiered September 17, 2009, at the London O2 Arena.

Before Jaws set box office records in the summer of 1975, successful films such as Quo Vadis, The Ten Commandments, Gone With the Wind, and Ben-Hur were called blockbusters based purely on the amount of money earned at the box office.

The story recounts the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century.

In his autobiography, Wallace said that while he was writing Ben-Hur " at my rough pine-table, the Count of Monte Cristo in his dungeon of stone was not more lost to the world.

Learning that the Christians in Rome are suffering at the hands of Emperor Nero, Ben-Hur and his friends decide to help.

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.

Dying of thirst when his slave gang arrives at Nazareth, Ben-Hur collapses.

" Kaplan describes the script at this point as having only a " modest to minimal " understanding of what the ancient Roman world was like, dialogue which veered " between flat Americanisms and stilted formality ", and an ill-defined relationship between Judah Ben-Hur and Messala.

For example, he cast a British actor for the role of the centurion who denies Judah Ben-Hur water at Nazareth.

Dunning says that he directed most of the critical scene in which Quintus Arrius first confronts Judah Ben-Hur on the galley, as well as the following segment in which Arrius forces the slaves to row at high speed.

Ben-Hur premiered at Loew's State Theatre in New York City on November 18, 1959.

Present at the premiere were William Wyler, Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet, Martha Scott, Ramon Novarro ( who played Judah Ben-Hur in the 1925 silent film version ), Spyros Skouras ( president of the 20th Century Fox ), Barney Balaban ( president of Paramount Pictures ), Jack Warner ( president of Warner Bros .), Leonard Goldenson ( president of the American Broadcasting Company ), Moss Hart ( playwright ), Robert Kintner ( an ABC Television executive ), Sidney Kingsley ( playwright ), and Adolph Zukor ( founder of Paramount Pictures ).

Ben-Hur was repeated on CBS at least once more before being sold to local television stations.

Rózsa's most recent work at the time was the score for MGM's hugely successful religious epic Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), for which he won his third Oscar.

* Ben-Hur Baz artwork can be viewed at American Art Archives web site

In October of that year, they released their first batch of Betamax and VHS tapes: The Wizard of Oz, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Doctor Zhivago, Ben-Hur, That's Entertainment !, Network, Coma, The Dirty Dozen, An American in Paris, The Sunshine Boys, Blow-Up, Meet Me in St. Louis, A Night at the Opera, Adam's Rib, Jailhouse Rock, Tom and Jerry Cartoon Festival, The Boys in the Band, Rude Boy, Rio Lobo, The Street Fighter, Electric Light Orchestra In Concert, James Taylor In Concert, The Nutcracker, and Giselle.