This and Lawrence of Arabia have secured a very special place in my heart

i agree, my favorite film of all time.

i am 61 years old i saw ben hur when i was 10 years old i fell in love with everything that is roman ever since. To this day i have not seen a film to beat it.

@@trinihammer yes you're right!!!

I agree. I remember watching it in the 60's being around 10 years old, and the scene at the end of the movie, where his mother and sister are taking shelter from the storm during the crucifixion of Jesus - the camera shows their faces being healed of the leprosy as the thunder and lightning is all around them. This scene caused a very deep sense of compassion and love for the gift that He gave us. And other deeper feelings I cannot explain. It has been with me my entire life, and now, I am dedicated to it wholeheartedly. Waiting for His soon returning. Oh what a glorious day that will be!

@@susannahfox7188 That was always my favorite part! 💖

@@shimmyhinnah Good to hear it has moved others like me too! Blessings!

And the centurion's look! This movie is superb!

The music is perfect in that scene.

That death sceen should have won it for him, on it's own. Very underrated actor, indeed.

​@@hellokitty777able well said 👍

Absolutely correct John. He was amazing 👍

He was an outstanding actor, brilliaint in the film The Man Who Never Was

While Boyd received a Golden Globe award for his portrayal in the film Ben Hur and critical appraise as well, he did not received an Academy Award best supporting actor because his role had what was seen to be at the time, gay overtones, in other words, overtones of homosexuality. Thus in those days the Film academy did not see fit to make the award in Boyd's case because of how his role came across. As I understand it however, he never had a problem with not receiving the award.

i am 61 years old and never get tired of watching this movie. i have seen it at least 20 times.

Don't forget sex !

Maybe, just maybe that's the case because it is not politically correct these days to believe in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. The story is not just a story. It is the truth. And he's coming back, soon, very soon.

@@susannahfox7188 if you read the book you will see immediately the title is actually “Ben Hur A Story of the Christ “!

@@GeneRogers-lo1qy Yes, I remember they say that in the introduction to the movie. But good to point it out! Most people zoom right past that!

Pure majesty!!!Enough said!!!

It is a perfect movie. Love, hate, trials and tribulation of the protagonist, betrayal, excitement, moments of reflection and peace, the bad guy vanquished, and then, finally redemption.

ME TOO. I WAS AN USHERETTE AT THE MOVIE PREMIER IN WASHINGTON DC. IT RAN ABOUT A MONTH. SAW IT MANY MANY TIMES. YES INDEED BEST PICTURE EVER MADE. CHARLTON HESTON GREATEST ACTOR AND HUMAN BEING. FAITHFUL AND TRUE TO WIFE AND FAMILY. HIS VOICE SO UNIGUE AND POWERFUL. VERY INTELLIGENT KNOWLEDGEABLE MAN. HE HAD IT ALL. SO SAD HE DIED FROM AN UNCURABLE DEBILITATING DISEASE.

@@josephhewes3923 This movie is unique and wonderful, I'm 41 years old and I enjoy watching it as much as I did the first time when I was a child, it is a true masterpiece. Es mi pelicula favorita.

@@allam7639 so do I🤗🇬🇧

Yes all the actors are dead now but they have a kind if immortality don't they ? People will watch Ben Hur 1000 yrs from now and see all the actors as they were in 1958.This movie will live forever.

Leider ist er in den letzten Jahren zu Ostern nicht mehr gezeigt worden.

Charlton.

I TOTALLY agree with you!!!🌹🌸🏵

Nonsense, Charlton Heston would have been better!

Sidney Poitier would have been much more realistic, however!

Agreed. Since Heston was the principal star in both Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments, and since they were both biblical spectacles that came out within a couple years of each other, those two films are often compared to each other. But there is really NO comparison; The Ten Commandments was a very good movie and certainly one of the best pictures of the year it came out, but it really comes off at times almost as a documentary and it is not terribly thought-provoking. But Ben-Hur was quite simply a cinematic masterpiece, one of the greatest motion pictures ever made and certainly the finest biblical epic of all time. It grabs your attention and holds it from start to finish. If you go to the bathroom for 5 minutes during The Ten Commandments it is really no big deal, but for Ben-Hur you do not want to miss a second!! And it is a VERY thought-provoking film, one which you will continue to think about your entire life after seeing it and think about what is truly important in life.

America is a continent just like Africa, Europe and Asia. The US is only one county in America just like Spain is only one country in Europe. It cannot be all that hard to say the US instead.

@@rthelionheart WHAT ?

@@InFltSvc what what?.

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In 1959 there was Jim Crow, disenfranchisement, gender discrimination, planes crashing at frightening rates and with cars lacking safety harnesses the highways were painted red. So much for things being done "better" in America then.

Too bad this video is playing the theme song from "The Vikings"!

To be fair, it must be said that the horse race is an exact copy of the 1925 film BEN-HUR. It is copied exactly the same, the framing, the shots, everything. The race is a work of art, but the original was from 1925 and you have to give honor to whoever deserves it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ebefZKZ12NCsd5c.html

Miklos Rosza’s score is brilliant, added so much majesty to this great film

@H . No argument there my friend. Over the course of fifty years I’ve seen it at least twenty + times and it is still a thrill and absolutely breathtaking to watch

@@Hugatree1 I would only want to be Judua Ben Hur to play in a role,first and foremost

History about a true Historic moment in time, depicted in over 3.5 hours. Amazing on all spectrums of filmmaking production and quality in special effects, acting, action, clothing, narration, cast. - 1 for the ages, one of the greatest films ever. J.P.

Amen!

Las otras no se le comparan Ben Hur es única

ben hur edges ten commandments for me.

.…except for the jealousy of certain people/factions’, it should’ve won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay………making its’ tally 12 out of possible 12 awards. Shame………

@@elizabethroberts6215 Yes course totally agree 💯

@@RFED2O ……thank you for that! IMO, it’s still THE most honoured film of all time. I know others’ have won 11, BUT they didn’t win any for ACTING, which is a higher AMPAS Category than CGI! Between 1966-1996, I’d the honour, & privilege of meeting Mr Charlton Heston, & his beautiful wife, Lydia, many times’. They were a such down-to-earth people, fantastic to converse with, well educated, & extremely knowledgeable on many subjects’. They’re both gone now. RIP……

Steven boyd merece o Oscar de melhor coadjuvante.

Me too. I was about the same age and I begged a ride with several relatives and neighbors and saw it in a theatre 4 times. I have a copy of my own now and watch it periodically. Love the music. It's so perfectly matched with every scene. Today is Easter and I think I'll watch it again.

Same with me at that age. I wasn’t a church going boy in London but this was my church. I have the DVD and played it over Easter.

I feel the same way! One of my favourite scenes.

Ditto.

Ditto

It has always been my very favorite

ABSOLUTELY!!! 🌹🌸🏵

……Mr Heston was originally slotted to get ‘Messala’ part, as Director Wyler had liked his work in film ‘The Big Country’ (1958). When other actors’ eg Burt Lancaster, Leslie Nielsen et al, tried out for role as ‘Ben-Hur’, but didn’t get the part, Wyler then screen tested Mr Heston. The rest, as is said, is history………

Just the music in this clip is so wonderful.

Yes. He added emotional depth to the movie

If you listen carefully to the music at the start of the Roman slave ship segment, Rozsa borrowed the initial melody from Gustav Holt’s Mars theme from The Planets. It sends a chill down one’s spine.

@@dschmid8845 Indeed! 🙏🏼

Isn't the first 4 minutes of music or so from "The Vikings?"

Oh, no.🥺 I didn't know Haya passed away two years ago. What a shame😔. She was the perfect choice for playing the leading female role in the film, displaying innocence and appealing endeavors in her character. And yes, she was the last of the performers until she died in 2021 at the age of 90. RIP, Haya😢.

really? She was stunning and what an actress 😢😢

@@isabelbeckerman9226 Yes sad but she lived a long life.She was 27 when she starred in Ben Hur.

she was truly a beautiful woman.

@@isabelbeckerman9226 una belleza bien caracterizada!!!

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Indeed...Charlton Heston was not only a finely skilled and trained actor (grad of Northwestern), but his commitment to excellence and his work ethic were exemplary! Heston was + will always be one of the GREATS in this art form and industry -- when films of true merit w/biblical, historic and social significance were made, unlike much of today. No surprise he became a long-elected head of the Screen Actors' Guild. TY, CH, for sharing your gifts! 💞💞💞

Or that the chariot race took 6 months to film!!! That's awesome. I saw this movie when it first came out. I was 12 and it had a huge impact on me! Saw it on a class trip to NYC in a fabulous theater!

Whyler in his contract refused to shoot the race ! Nervous breakdown ahead!

Your story had me in tears. Blessings

What a lovely story. What did you call your son?

Now that is a beautiful thing the way you described that. Wow!

@@pompeymcc3531 "Offspring"

unfortunately that music is from a different movie

Yes from The Vikings...Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis....

Spot on 😊

Richardhn6481 Actually parts of several sets, including the race arena, were paintings. Of course not made by computers, but painted by hand on glass sheets. A tehnology used even on the first Star Wars movies…

My sister and I went to see this epic film when it came out. I too have seen it many dozens of times since. I weep every time at the end when Judah’s mother and sister are healed. I purchased an original theater movie poster many years ago and had the great pleasure of meeting Mr. Heston and having him sign it for me. Such a wonderful human being he was. We are about to celebrate the season of Jesus death and resurrection, you couldn’t ask for a better movie to watch.

Thanks. Charlton ordered autograph hunters to line up. He was ready to sign sitting in the stage managers booth. Signed everyone.

Thanks. Of course we are aware of his NRA links. The Americans take the right to bear arms very seriously. He could have run for office. President Heston. Sounds good.

Thanks. As a matter of interest Charlton was starring in a play in London. I can't remember the name of the Play.

Thanks. Charlton Heston had Republican views. So did John Wayne. Ronald Reagan became President. Difficult to separate politics and showbusiness in America.

@@dennisesplin3285 Hello, Was it Love Letters with Lydia Heston at The Theatre Royal Haymarket 1999?

It was played by Claude Heater, an opera singer.

I too. have seen the film many, many times. First saw it at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood at age of 8. A few years back I began to notice how the writers and probably Wyler as well worked a very nice motif into the film: the use of "hands". The movie begins with the camera moving in to the Creation of Adam fresco ending with closeup of the two hands about to meet at the moment of creation. The image returns in the desert when Christ gives water to Judah. Several shots of Judah's hands as he gazes at Esther's slave ring. Another recurring image of two hands at the crucifixion: Close up of Christ's nailed hand on the cross and quick cut to Esther looking at Miriam's cured hand in the cave. And, as you noted, the movie ends as it began - with, in this case, the word "hand." Would no doubt have won a twelfth Oscar (screenplay) had it not been for the unfortunate bitter fight and controversy over the credit for the screenplay in which Christopher Fry was not given co-writing credit.

Amen

A true religious experience *

Halloween you totally missed! Wow, shame on you.

My very favorite movie too! I was overwhelmed by it when I first saw it as a 16-year-old

And every one of them got a paycheck! No CGI paychecks today, yet movies are more expensive than ever. All corporate GREED.

Again BEST movie ever made!! I wateched over ten times over the years! I would see It again and again!! How touching to see Jesús giving water to Ben Hur!! I don't think web can see a movie like this anymore!! It has magnificent!!! see

I was 13 yrs when I saw this Movie back in Manila Philippines. My family took me to a movie house on the same month I was coming to America, December 1959. I didn’t even speak English then. I was just a kid. The line was very long for people to get in to watch the movie, just like The Ten Commandments. Only few movie house could show it (first class theater only. It ran for about 13 weeks straight or more in one theater. Amazing show.

EXACTLY!! I, too, was 10 when I first saw it and am now 73, having seen it at least 40 times. That incomparable, never-to-be-equaled score always magically brings me back to Sunday, February 14, 1960 when I first saw it at the Loew’s State theater on Broadway in New York City

Yes! I always wanted to see that man's face. One of the best films ever!

We can see Jesus at the 5:50 mark. Here is the complete scene from the movie with Ben-Hur and Jesus: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/maqfrNyosNqVj2Q.html

I think Miklos Rozsa's music composition was at a different scale. Doubt if ever there will be a similar film music. Timeless beauty!

H KALYTERH TAINIA OLON TON EPOXON..MAZI ME OSA pAIRNH O ANEMOS KAI TO KAZABLANCA.

He looks nothing like David. He resembles Michaleangelo's statue of Moses, which is why he was cast as Moses in The Ten Commandments.

Would love to see the making of chariot race...

Interesante SÍNTESIS de escenas "fuera de cámara"... Pensar que hasta HOY, esta película sigue siendo la mejor y más MONUMENTAL de TODOS los TIEMPOS en el Arte del CINE, y todo esto con las enormes limitaciones tecnológicas de aquellos años de la década de los 60... Casi nos resulta INCREÍBLE lo que los humanos PODEMOS realizar!!!!! Vi esta grandiosa Obra cuando tenía 13 o 14 años de edad aquí en mi ciudad de Cuco-Perú.

Exato ! mesmo com as limitações tecnológicas da época, ainda hoje é uma película fantástica ! Não podemos esquecer da espetacular trilha sonora, elaborada pelo grande compositor e maestro " Miklós Rosza ". Grande abraço !

You are so intelligent. Can we meet?

Thought the same thing...different composer too.

Let's see if we can fix that ! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q8uDY5qKx7PJhas.html

@@progximitymelbourne8933 Ditto.