Miklos Rozsa's finest movie score. Those trumpets at the beginning (fanfare) tell us something wonderful's about to happen. You're about to be transported back to the Roman era. The costumes, set design (especially of the Arena-check out those statues), the cast....subperbly done. Greed, control, ambition, determination, love, love for his parents, faith...quite the package within one movie, plus wrapped around the Christ. This film will live forever. thank you, MGM!
@@johnnyocal7454They can't. Afaik, Stephen Speilberg has given up the idea of making a film about the Aztecs and Cortez for example. He's an old man now and it would require every second of his attention for about 2 years.
There are some movies that should never be done over. Ben Hur Is one of those movies. One of my favorite scenes is when Charlton Heston sees Haya Harareet as a young woman. No words, just a look. The eyes speak volumes. Those scenes are some of the most memorable. One of my all time favorites.
@SavoneJames I couldn't believe they even dared to do a remake of Ben-Hur. I knew it was going to be crap but I watched it anyway just for the pleasure of tearing it apart. So many people I know wanted to go see it however, I played the blue ray DVD I have and 98% of them opted out of seeing the remake. The other 2% told me that they were sorely disappointed they wasted the $40.0. Same thing with the remakes of Murder in the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, absolutely garbage. Have a great weekend.
The finest film ever-it has it all-family values, love, hate, betrayal, friendship, love of God, forgiveness, life's lessons never ends with this epic!
I can think of no other movie I'd rather watch again and again. Even by today's standards, it's a major classic and, in my mind, the greatest movie ever made.. If the author of the book, Civil War Major General Lew Wallace, could have foreseen what his story became, I think he would be simply astounded.
Wallace was not only an accomplished author, but also an exceptional military tactician who saved the day for the North in several engagements in the Civil War. He was a former governor of the New Mexico territory and also knew the Middle East, having served as US minister to the Ottoman Empire. I visited his home/studio/museum in Crawfordsville, Indiana, last year. It was well worth the visit.
Undoubtedly the greatest epic evrrmade in Hollywood during fiftes.Great direction of William Wyler,composition of Miklos Rosza n studded starcast of Charlton Heston, Stephen Byod,Jack Hawkins n great Hugh Griffith.The stuff that dreams are made of.
"Great" is an overused superlative. But this is truly a GREAT movie. And the score is just one of the elements that make it GREAT. Another is the GREAT acting by Charlton Heston. Any other other actor's performance would have been overwhelmed and diminished by the sheer size and scope of such a massive epic. I'm certain a GREAT director like William Wyler understood that the essential gravitas of the man would always shine through that lens no matter how grand the setting.
Without any doubt, Charlton Heston is and was one of the giants of the cinema. He proved it in Ben-Hur. I can't understand how the AFI didn't give him the lifetime achievement award. R.I.P.
……Mr Charlton Heston did receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, though, an Academy ‘Oscar’, for his work for the Civil Rights’ Movement, in 1963………
TIMELESS MOVIE AN EPIC OF EPICS !!!!!!! SEEN IT GOSH !!! MILLIONS OF TIMES OVER THE YEARS !!!! HOWEVER, R.I.P. TO ALL THE CAST & ALL WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE MAKING OF A SUPER GREAT MOVIE. THE REMAKE IN 2006 WAS HMMMMM !!!! NOT CLASSY ENOUGH FOR ME !!!!!!!!! IT WAS A B- MOVIE !!!!! FROM U.K. (2023).
Being an architect I had a fancy for the sets of William Wyller's Ben Hur produced by MGM and other movies like Agony & the Ecstasy and Fall of the Roman Empire and King of Kings and I anxiously watched how the Director had done the details of Ionic , Doric and Corinthian Columns some of which might have been from the Greek Order besides from the Roman Order and the massive Chariots races with Mesopotamian & the Persian Horses and I still remember the days when I three times watched the Ben Hur movie at the local Capitol Cinema designed by my Parsi School Teacher Ar Minoo P Mistri who taught me at the Government School of Architecture , Karachi with Ar Jennifer Catherine Habib who was an ARIBA from England and had worked with Macdonald Layton , A British Contracting Firm of Karachi who were initially Boat Builders at Fish Harbour of West Wharf , Karachi where my elder brother Shujaatullah Qureshi was working as Chief Engineer and Director after returning from New York ,Ithaca Cornell University, USA where he had gone and joined as a Full Bright Scholar and obtained his Degree of MS ( Structural Engineering ) and returned to Karachi in 1960 and joined the offices of Dr Lazarides of Greece and lateron Joined Macdonald Layton !
I get why they remake popular movies with name recognition, but to remake truly exceptional films like this is beyond foolish. Those films are like lightning in a bottle. It has yet to work.
Does anyone know the name of the actor who played the centurion who said ''No water for him.'' I looked for the guy's name in the IMDB cast listing and I thought I saw him in a scene in ''The Egyptian,'' but I've never been able to track him down.'' I thought the guy's scene when he sees the face of Jesus was terrific acting.
If I understood Heston's recall, he was a more expensive Italian actor who was then asked back. Caveat: I wasn't listening properly but the image was of him saying 'no water for him'.
Remington Olmsted played the decurion. He was a Roman restaurant owner spotted when opera singer Claude Heater was eating there, and both were cast in the movie
The original Ben Hur story was written by American Civil War General Lew Wallace. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace, published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century". It became a best-selling American novel, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) in sales. The book also inspired other novels with biblical settings and was adapted for the stage and motion picture productions.
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Absolutely one of the greatest movies ever. Actors, music, story, just amazing. ❤️💯❤️
Without any doubt, the greatest movie ever made! Period!
Charlton said if this movie was made today it would cost 223 MILLION DOLLARS!
Miklos Rozsa's finest movie score. Those trumpets at the beginning (fanfare) tell us something wonderful's about to happen. You're about to be transported back to the Roman era. The costumes, set design (especially of the Arena-check out those statues), the cast....subperbly done. Greed, control, ambition, determination, love, love for his parents, faith...quite the package within one movie, plus wrapped around the Christ. This film will live forever. thank you, MGM!
I'm 57 an still love this classic.they dont make films like this anymore
Thank you for those great comments!!
@@jamesAlexander007 You're welcome. I'll always be in awe of this movie.
@@johnnyocal7454They can't.
Afaik, Stephen Speilberg has given up the idea of making a film about the Aztecs and Cortez for example.
He's an old man now and it would require every second of his attention for about 2 years.
Yes.Something happened for sure
This music brings tears to my eyes, it is just THAT good!!!!. j.
@@jamesAlexander007 would you believe i'm doing the love theme from BenHur as a heavy rock number? lol. j.
simply the best movie score of all time
There are some movies that should never be done over. Ben Hur Is one of those movies. One of my favorite scenes is when Charlton Heston sees Haya Harareet as a young woman. No words, just a look. The eyes speak volumes. Those scenes are some of the most memorable. One of my all time favorites.
@SavoneJames I couldn't believe they even dared to do a remake of Ben-Hur. I knew it was going to be crap but I watched it anyway just for the pleasure of tearing it apart. So many people I know wanted to go see it however, I played the blue ray DVD I have and 98% of them opted out of seeing the remake. The other 2% told me that they were sorely disappointed they wasted the $40.0. Same thing with the remakes of Murder in the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, absolutely garbage.
Have a great weekend.
The finest film ever-it has it all-family values, love, hate, betrayal, friendship,
love of God, forgiveness, life's lessons never ends with this epic!
I can think of no other movie I'd rather watch again and again. Even by today's standards, it's a major classic and, in my mind, the greatest movie ever made.. If the author of the book, Civil War Major General Lew Wallace, could have foreseen what his story became, I think he would be simply astounded.
Yes I agree.
Wallace was not only an accomplished author, but also an exceptional military tactician who saved the day for the North in several engagements in the Civil War. He was a former governor of the New Mexico territory and also knew the Middle East, having served as US minister to the Ottoman Empire. I visited his home/studio/museum in Crawfordsville, Indiana, last year. It was well worth the visit.
The zenith of film making beyond profound.
Only one word, EPIC!
My all-time favorite movie of the Christ!
Undoubtedly the greatest epic evrrmade in Hollywood during fiftes.Great direction of William Wyler,composition of Miklos Rosza n studded starcast of Charlton Heston, Stephen Byod,Jack Hawkins n great Hugh Griffith.The stuff that dreams are made of.
Should be shown on a major screen to at least 2 generations. It is a true picture of excellence.
"Great" is an overused superlative. But this is truly a GREAT movie. And the score is just one of the elements that make it GREAT. Another is the GREAT acting by Charlton Heston. Any other other actor's performance would have been overwhelmed and diminished by the sheer size and scope of such a massive epic. I'm certain a GREAT director like William Wyler understood that the essential gravitas of the man would always shine through that lens no matter how grand the setting.
Without any doubt, Charlton Heston is and was one of the giants of the cinema. He proved it in Ben-Hur. I can't understand how the AFI didn't give him the lifetime achievement award. R.I.P.
Because he was a Christian? and believed every house should be armed against the possibility of a tyrannical government , like the British government
……Mr Charlton Heston did receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, though, an Academy ‘Oscar’, for his work for the Civil Rights’ Movement, in 1963………
The kind of film that can make a believer out of you.
TIMELESS MOVIE AN EPIC OF EPICS !!!!!!! SEEN IT GOSH !!! MILLIONS OF TIMES OVER THE YEARS !!!! HOWEVER, R.I.P. TO ALL THE CAST & ALL WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE MAKING OF A SUPER GREAT MOVIE. THE REMAKE IN 2006 WAS HMMMMM !!!! NOT CLASSY ENOUGH FOR ME !!!!!!!!! IT WAS A B- MOVIE !!!!! FROM U.K. (2023).
Since boyhood, I have loved this film of my life …
No hay otro actor mejor para Ben hur el mejor charlton heston
Un des meilleurs péplum de tous les temps et des comédiens au sommet de leur art : Charlton Heston et Stephen Boyd.
I love this
Being an architect I had a fancy for the sets of William Wyller's Ben Hur produced by MGM and other movies like Agony & the Ecstasy and Fall of the Roman Empire and King of Kings and I anxiously watched how the Director had done the details of Ionic , Doric and Corinthian Columns some of which might have been from the Greek Order besides from the Roman Order and the massive Chariots races with Mesopotamian & the Persian Horses and I still remember the days when I three times watched the Ben Hur movie at the local Capitol Cinema designed by my Parsi School Teacher Ar Minoo P Mistri who taught me at the Government School of Architecture , Karachi with Ar Jennifer Catherine Habib who was an ARIBA from England and had worked with Macdonald Layton , A British Contracting Firm of Karachi who were initially Boat Builders at Fish Harbour of West Wharf , Karachi where my elder brother Shujaatullah Qureshi was working as Chief Engineer and Director after returning from New York ,Ithaca Cornell University, USA where he had gone and joined as a Full Bright Scholar and obtained his Degree of MS ( Structural Engineering ) and returned to Karachi in 1960 and joined the offices of Dr Lazarides of Greece and lateron Joined Macdonald Layton !
Charlton said if this movie was done today it would cost 223 MILLION DOLLARS TITANIC WAS 200 MILLION DOLLARS, THIS IS TEN TIMES THE MOVIE!
Amazing long story. And you didn't use any paragraphs or periods 😂
La mejor película de semanasanta
O Melhor filme que já assiti em minha vida , Agostinho de Louveira ...
Gosto muito de 🎥 más Ben Hur para mim é o clássico dos classificados❤❤❤❤
Love that movie Ben Hur n ten commandments
Why not a single mention of the wonderful Haya Harareet?
Yes I wondered that as well. She was beautiful. They had chemistry together.
I get why they remake popular movies with name recognition, but to remake truly exceptional films like this is beyond foolish. Those films are like lightning in a bottle. It has yet to work.
Does anyone know the name of the actor who played the centurion who said ''No water for him.'' I looked for the guy's name in the IMDB cast listing and I thought I saw him in a scene in ''The Egyptian,'' but I've never been able to track him down.'' I thought the guy's scene when he sees the face of Jesus was terrific acting.
If I understood Heston's recall, he was a more expensive Italian actor who was then asked back. Caveat: I wasn't listening properly but the image was of him saying 'no water for him'.
Remington Olmsted played the decurion. He was a Roman restaurant owner spotted when opera singer Claude Heater was eating there, and both were cast in the movie
He plays in "Barrabas" with Anthony Quinn
Only movie I put next to it, is Hitchcock's Vertigo. Vertigo, Ben Hur and Rebecca, are probably my top 3 movies ever!!!
The original Ben Hur story was written by American Civil War General Lew Wallace. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace, published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century". It became a best-selling American novel, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) in sales. The book also inspired other novels with biblical settings and was adapted for the stage and motion picture productions.
Boyd made 11 or 12 movies before Ben Hur, Chuck.
👏👏👏👏true!
Why the black screen for several minutes around 39:something?
That's an error thank you for letting me know, i will correct that. Take care James.
Captain von Trapp?
I am not Esther