Ben-Hur

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DVD Details

  • Rated: Unrated
  • Run Time: 3 hours, 32 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 16, 2007
  • Originally Released: 1959
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1959 - Best Actor: Charlton Heston
Academy Awards 1959 - Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (Color): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1959 - Best Cinematography: Robert Surtees
Academy Awards 1959 - Best Costume Design (Color): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1959 - Best Director: William Wyler
Academy Awards 1959 - Best Film Editing: John D. Dunning & Ralph E. Winters
Academy Awards 1959 - Best Original Score: Miklos Rozsa
Academy Awards 1959 - Best Picture: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1959 - Best Sound: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1959 - Best Sound Effects: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1959 - Best Special Effects: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1959 - Best Supporting Actor: Hugh Griffith

Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh86%

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Total Count: 49

Upright89%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 106,070
Rating: 3/5 -- 1959 Biblical epic has fierce blood-spilling, cruelty. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Sep 9, 2014
Rating: 3/4 -- Clocking in at three hours forty-two minutes, Ben-Hur overstays its welcome. Still, despite scenes that occasionally run too long, the movie doesn't start to drag until after the chariot race and many of the early scenes are engaging. Full Review
ReelViews
Oct 7, 2018
The movie could be trying to say that for some people religion is an escape from their sexuality, but it seems unlikely. Full Review
Time Out
Jan 26, 2006
William Wyler never lets spectacle and size interfere with the elemental passions and conflicts of his human story. The spectacular aspects emerge naturally from the story -- the time and place and the customs of the society in which the characters live. Full Review
Hollywood Reporter
Nov 19, 2018
Rating: 5/10 -- The most egregiously boring movie ever graced with the Best Picture Oscar... though in fairness, egregious boredom is one of the cornerstones of the Bible epic genre. Full Review
Antagony & Ecstasy
Dec 6, 2016
Rating: A- -- [VIDEO ESSAY] It's worth sitting through four hours of Charlton Heston's hammy pregnant pauses of strained dialogue and toothy grimaces just to savor the legendary larger-than-life marathon where single rider chariots... Full Review
ColeSmithey.com
Jul 25, 2015
Rating: 4.5/5 -- One of Wyler's greatest achievements is the way he portrays Jesus Christ, made with elegance and genius. [Full Review in Spanish] Full Review
Espinof
Jul 24, 2019

Product Description:

Anno Domini: the seventh year of Augustus Caesar's reign. In the Roman province of Judea, Jews return to the city of their birth for the census. A bright star in the night over Bethlehem marks the birth of Jesus Christ. Years later, Roman commander Messala (Stephen Boyd), who was brought up in Judea, takes command of the Roman garrison in Jerusalem. His Jewish boyhood friend Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) greets him. Messala is delighted. But when Judah refuses to name Jewish patriots, Messala sentences him to the slave galleys and imprisons his mother, Miriam (Martha Scott), and sister, Tirzah (Cathy O'Donnell). Judah vows revenge.

In BEN-HUR, William Wyler's much-lauded epic, the story of Judah's search for his mother and sister and his quest for revenge intersects with crucial biblical events such as the Sermon on the Mount and the crucifixion. Wyler gets fine performances from Heston, Boyd, Jack Hawkins (as a Roman admiral who befriends Judah), and Hugh Griffith (as an Arab sheik who dreams of racing his beautiful white horses against Messala). Among BEN-HUR's vivid dramatic sequences are a violent sea battle and the famous chariot race that pits Judah against Messala in one of cinema's great action sequences.

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Product Info

  • Sales Rank: 125,050
  • UPC: 012569797734
  • Shipping Weight: 0.27/lbs (approx)
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