Word: wyler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Despite shortcomings, including a hero who is pretty much an overgrown boy scout, Director William Wyler's $15 million film version of Major General Lew Wallace's Biblical bestseller (1880) is the most expensive and the best screen spectacle ever produced...
...Director William Wyler's $15 million film version of Major General Lew Wallace's Biblical bestseller (1880) is not only the most expensive screen spectacle ever produced but also the best...
...this sea of celluloid, a masterful director, William (Wuthering Heights, The Best Years of Our Lives') Wyler, has fished a whale of a picture, the biggest and the best of Hollywood's super-spectacles. The story of Ben-Hur is reasonably faithful to the general's stirring "Tale of the Christ." Prince Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston), a rich Jew born about the same time as Christ, falls out with his childhood friend Messala (Stephen Boyd), commander of the Roman garrison in Jerusalem, who demands that Ben-Hur inform against other Jewish patriots. When Ben-Hur refuses...
Great credit goes to Producer Zimbalist, Scenarist Tunberg and Director Wyler, but the greatest belongs to Wyler. His wit, intelligence and formal instinct are almost everywhere in evidence, and he has set a standard of excellence by which coming generations of screen spectacles can expect to be measured. His virtues have been agreeably rewarded. Friends report that his percentage-of-profits deal with M-G-M will put him on easy street for the rest of his life. But it is probable that MGM, which was in a shaky financial spot when the project was launched, will not have...
...Country. The year's best western; directed by William Wyler, starring Gregory Peck (TIME, Sept...