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...Director William Wyler's $15 million film version of Major General Lew Wallace's Biblical bestseller has its failures, but the chariot race alone is worth the price of admission...
...Director William Wyler's $15 million film version of Major General Lew Wallace's Biblical bestseller has its failures, but the chariot race alone is worth the price of admission...
Reviving the old Hashemite dream of a "Fertile Crescent" extending from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf, he trumpeted that neighboring Syria is "inseparable from the Iraqi people." and that Jordan "is still tied to the chariot of imperialism and when she wishes to recover her freedom we will be ready to help her." Turning to Nasser, he poked at a tender spot: the Nasser-nurtured myth that Egyptians actually won a stunning victory in the Suez and Sinai fighting in 1956. He sneered at "the weak Egyptian army command" that could prevent "the Jews from capturing no fewer than...
...pestilential dungeon. Ben-Hur is freed from the galley, taken to Rome and adopted by a Roman admiral (Jack Hawkins) whose life he has saved. As soon as possible, he goes back to Palestine, hears that his mother and sister are dead, enters against Messala in the chariot races and rides him into the ground. But Messala has his vengeance. With his dying breath he tells Ben-Hur that his mother and sister are alive, but are lepers. Heartbroken and crazed with hate, the hero sets out to raise a rebellion against Rome, but he is caught...
Griffith provides some skillful comic relief as a sheik who is crazy over horses. But what matters most and comes off best in the picture is the great scenes of spectacle, particularly the chariot race, a superbly handled crescendo of violence that ranks as one of the finest action sequences ever shot. All by itself it would be worth the price of admission...