Ben-Hur (50th Anniversary Box Set) (5-DVD + Books) G
The entertainment experience of a lifetime.
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Also released as:
Ben-Hur (Anniversary Edition) (2-DVD)
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Ben-Hur (50th Anniversary) (Blu-ray)
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Ben-Hur (50th Anniversary Edition) (2-DVD)
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 5
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 6 hours, 4 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 27, 2011
- Originally Released: 1959
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Charlton Heston & Stephen Boyd | |
| Performer: | Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Cathy O'Donnell, Sam Jaffe, Finlay Currie, Frank Thring, Terence Longdon, André Morell & George Relph | |
| Directed by | William Wyler | |
| Edited by | John Dunning, Ralph E. Winters & John D. Dunning | |
| Narrated by | Finlay Currie | |
| Screenplay by | Karl Tunberg | |
| Written by | Karl Tunberg | |
| Composition by | Miklos Rozsa | |
| Story by | Lew Wallace | |
| Director of Photography: | Robert Surtees |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: A- --
[VIDEO ESSAY] It's worth sitting through four hours of Charlton Heston's hammy pregnant pauses of strained dialogue and toothy grimaces just to savor the legendary larger-than-life marathon where single rider chariots...
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ColeSmithey.com
Rating: 3/4 --
Clocking in at three hours forty-two minutes, Ben-Hur overstays its welcome. Still, despite scenes that occasionally run too long, the movie doesn't start to drag until after the chariot race and many of the early scenes are engaging.
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ReelViews
Entire new frontiers in boredom were opened up by this MGM whopper from 1959.
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Chicago Reader
Watching it was like waiting at a railroad crossing while an interminable freight train lumbers past, often stopping completely for a while.
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Esquire Magazine
Rating: 5/5 --
Although it is a spectacle film, the story of how a man takes on the tyranny of the Romans, with all sorts of horrible consequences to himself and his family, is powerful and gripping.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Rating: A --
The chariot race still holds up.
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rachelsreviews.net
The biggest and the best of Hollywood's super-spectacles.
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TIME Magazine
Product Description:
Own the definitive version of the 1959 classic BEN HUR in this lavish box set that includes a new feature-length documentary on the film's production, an exclusive production art book, and a 128 page replica of Charlton Heston's journal and sketches.
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Product Info
- UPC: 883929119219
- Shipping Weight: 3.25/lbs (approx)
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