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Ben-Hur / Ben- Hur / Ben Hur


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Tookey's Rating
8 /10
 
Average Rating
8.59 /10
 
Starring
Charlton Heston , Haya Harareet, Jack Hawkins
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Directed by: William Wyler , action sequences by Andrew Marton
Written by: Karl Tunberg assisted by S.N. Behrman, Gore Vidal, Christopher Fry

 
 
 
Released: 1959
   
Genre: DRAMA
REMAKE
EPIC
   
Origin: US
   
Colour: C
   
Length: 217
 
 


 
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Poky at times, but redeemed by the strength of its convictions. Some of the special effects show their age, though the galley-slave sequence and climactic chariot-race (directed by Andrew Marton and staged by the legendary stunt expert Yakima Canutt) are still great.

(Leonard Maltin, Maltin's Movie & Video Guide, 2004)


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