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Angela Berkley,
High School Student
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The best acting came from Louise Bangay, lovely and moving as Ben-Hur's mother and grimly convincing as the merchant who tricks Messala into betting away his fortune.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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One of the great movie spectacles, BEN HUR is a tour de force for Heston.
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Rob Bruff,
Nightclub Bouncer
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Ben Hur's attempts at whipping the other fellow's horse when he wasn't watching pale into insignificance against Boadicaea's techniques.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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It opened shortly after the shooting death of three nursing school teachers here, and Ben-Hur Heston wrote a letter saying that it was distasteful to show the movie in Tucson, or some such rabble.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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Lew Wallace-whose Ben Hur would be published in 1880 -visited Florida at Hayes's behest.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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Lipizzans were used in the great chariot race scene in the movie "Ben Hur", and have performed in circuses all around the world, as well as in horse shows and the Olympics.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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BEN HUR begins with Heston, (Judah Ben Hur) a wealthy patrician prince once friendly with the Romans occupying his country of Judea, turns against them in revolt after witnessing their many transgressions, particularly indicting the Emperor Tiberius, who has the Romans convinced they belong to a master race.
Judah Ben-Hur, betrayed into slavery by the wicked Messala, saves the life of an admiral, becomes his adopted son and the greatest athlete in Rome, returns to Judea, and, in a climactic chariot race, cripples his enemy and bankrupts him too.
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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Oscars went to Ben Hur for best picture and Charlton Heston for best actor.
Heston did a commentary for the release of Ben-Hur in 2001, but that commentary was for certain scenes and not the entire film.
Later, Lew Wallace wrote the book Ben Hur, one of the greatest English novels ever written concerning the time of Christ.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Judah Ben-Hur overcomes imprisonment on a galley ship to rise in Roman society and searches for a new faith.
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