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A scene from the movie. Ben-Hur is a 1959 American religious epic film [1] directed by William Wyler, produced by Sam Zimbalist, and starring Charlton Heston as the title character. A remake of the 1925 silent film with a similar title, it was adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
The Ben-Hur score has been considered to be the best of Rózsa's career. [161] The musical soundtrack to Ben-Hur remained deeply influential into the mid 1970s, when film music composed by John Williams for films such as Jaws, Star Wars, and Raiders of the Lost Ark became more popular among composers and film-goers. [162] Rózsa's score has ...
The American films of 1959 are listed in a table of the films which were made in the United States and released in 1959. The film Ben-Hur won the Academy Award for Best Picture , among winning a record-setting eleven Oscars .
The 1959 MGM film adaptation of Ben-Hur is considered one of the greatest films ever made and was seen by tens of millions, going on to win a record 11 Academy Awards in 1960, after which the book's sales increased and it surpassed Gone with the Wind. [2] It was blessed by Pope Leo XIII, the first novel ever to receive such an honour. [3]
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After Moses and Ben-Hur, Heston became more identified with Biblical epics than any other actor. He later voiced Ben-Hur in an animated television production of the Lew Wallace novel in 2003. Heston followed it with The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959) co-starring Gary Cooper, which was a box office disappointment. Heston in Ben-Hur (1959)
It includes 1959 films that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category is for war films released in the year 1959 . It does not include unreleased films.
The first film to seriously challenge the record was Gone with the Wind, reported to have cost about $3.9–4.25 million, [139] although sources from the time state that Ben-Hur and—erroneously—Hell's Angels cost more. [215] Ben-Hur was definitively displaced at the top of the chart by Duel in the Sun in 1946.