The new "Ben-Hur" (opening August 19) has mighty big sandals to fill. After all, the beloved 1959 version starring Charlton Heston as the title character was one of the most lavish epics in movie ...

Among them is Ben Hur, a film that raised the name of actor Charlton Heston (Planet of the Apes). The film was based on the novel by American writer Lewis Wallace, first published on November 12 ...

The legendary classic flickered across cinema screens in 1959, but is still very popular today. 'Ben Hur' set a record at the Oscars: the film received the prestigious award eleven times in total.

Hur, which was a huge commercial and critical hit for MGM and was basically the Titanic of its day. Unfortunately, though Ben-Hur‘s success carried MGM through the decade, the studio’s overreliance on ...