No matter how many times I've watched Ben-Hur since 1960, Messala still loses the race. I was a HUGE fan of Stephen Boyd and recall reading that the most painful thing about making this film - and he did his own stunts - was removing all bloody makeup he wore for his death scenes - removing it all took his own skin with it. He died so young perhaps his main purpose in life was to portray Messala.

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HAIL TO AN EPIC OF EPICS !!! SEENI

My all time favourite movie

When he was still of sound mind, Charlton Heston was on a radio talk show giving some fascinating factoids about the film. You know that part where Ben-Hur's chariot runs over the wreckage of another chariot, and he almost gets dumped out? That wasn't supposed to happen! The stunt man doubling for Heston was supposed to put his feet into some restraints, but forgot to do so. But when director William Wyler saw it, he said "That's great! Leave it in!" They hired FIVE THOUSAND extras to be the crowd- contrast that with "Gladiator" which used only 150 extras who were digitally duplicated around the arena. They built a special dining hall to feed them- which it could do in only three sittings. And in the galley scenes, those men really were sweating- you can't see them, but the ends of the oars they're pulling were attached to some really thick, heavy rubber bands. And it you want to score some trivia points, the role of Jesus was uncredited to a young actor named Claude Heater. (Look him up on IMDB). And did anybody notice that Martha Scott played Charlton Heston's mother twice- In Ben Hur, and before that in The Ten Comandments.

The finest accomplishment n film making history

Rosza’s music score was.brilliant

Brilliant how there's no musical soundtrack throughout the race-just the sound of hooves, horses being whipped, chariots, crashes. Makes it that more intense. Thanks so much for posting.

I was a young teen when we lived in Rome at the time of the Ben-Hur filming. Mr. William Wyler's young daughter was in the my school (International School), and we were invited to the set in Cinecitta. We saw the scene where Charlton Heston was stranded in the sea.

Ce chef d'œuvre restera certainement l'une des plus grandes fresques de toute l'histoire cinématographique mais surtout 61 ans après sa sortie fait toujours office de référence.

This is Hollywood at its best.

most epic movie of all time

Best marching music 🎶 👍

Il più grande kolossal di tutti i tempi!!!👏👏👏

Once we reached the VHS/DVD age, where film scenes could be watched over and over and over again and overanalyzed thanks to rewind, slow motion and frame-by-frame, people are spotting things that weren't given a second thought by audiences at the time the movie came out. The car chase in "Bullitt" is a another example of that.

Thank you for posting this, I and my friend enjoyed watching very informative ☺

Definitely on my top five list.

That statue in the middle of the racetrack was great It made the whole roman time setting believable I was impressed the first time i saw that on a large screen as a nine year old in the early 1970s Also the dolphins were a nice idea was that artistic freedom or did the Romans really use that to count The only problem with the race is because of the editing the daytime sun shadows on the track/walls make no sence it jumps Didn't notice that at the time offcourse

Watching Ben Hur movie almost instantly me to a christian!!! It wa that moving !!!

I always wanted to know what was the Height of the Spina & the stadium was from the ground