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  2. Production of Ben-Hur (1959 film) - Wikipedia

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    Ben-Hur filming site near Lifta, intended to be Jerusalem. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) originally announced a remake of the 1925 silent film Ben-Hur in December 1952, ostensibly as a way to spend its Italian assets. [a] [1] Stewart Granger and Robert Taylor were reported to be in the running for the lead. [1]

  3. Ben-Hur (1959 film) - Wikipedia

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    Ben-Hur filming site near Lifta, intended to represent Jerusalem. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) originally announced a remake of the 1925 silent film Ben-Hur in December 1952, ostensibly as a way to spend its Italian assets. [c] [12] Stewart Granger and Robert Taylor were reported to be in the running for the lead. [12]

  4. Cinecittà - Wikipedia

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    Cinecittà, described as Hollywood on the Tiber, was the location for several large American film productions, like Roman Holiday (1953), Beat the Devil (1953), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Ben-Hur (1959), and some low-budget action pictures starring Lex Barker.

  5. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925 film) - Wikipedia

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    Full film; runtime 02:20:52. Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ had been a great success as a novel, and was adapted into a stage play which ran for twenty-five years. In 1922, two years after the play's last tour, the Goldwyn company purchased the film rights to Ben-Hur. The play's producer, Abraham Erlanger, put a heavy price on the screen rights.

  6. Hollywood on the Tiber - Wikipedia

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    The Italian studio complex Cinecittà, the largest film studio in Europe, [1] where the films were made. Era in Italian filmmaking Hollywood on the Tiber is a phrase used in a June 26, 1950 Time magazine article [ 2 ] to describe the period in the 1950s and 1960s when the Italian capital of Rome emerged as a major location for international ...

  7. Ben-Hur (2016 film) - Wikipedia

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    Ben-Hur is a 2016 epic historical drama film directed by Timur Bekmambetov and written by Keith Clarke and John Ridley.It is the fifth film adaptation of the 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace following the 1907 silent short film, the 1925 silent film, the Academy Award-winning 1959 film and the 2003 animated film; it is the third version produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

  8. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Wikipedia

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    MGM also owned film studios, movie lots, movie theaters and technical production facilities. Its most prosperous era, from 1926 to 1959, was bracketed by two productions of Ben Hur . It divested itself of the Loews movie theater chain and, in 1956, expanded into television production.

  9. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - Wikipedia

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    The 1925 film adaptation of Ben-Hur under director Fred Niblo starred Ramon Novarro as Ben-Hur and Francis X. Bushman as Messala. [92] Filming began in Italy and was completed in the United States. It cost MGM $3.9 million ($55 million in 2023 dollars), "making it the most expensive silent film in history". [91]