Never seen Ben Hur. Looks like that’s on my film list now. 😂
Discussion
It feels like a blockbuster shot in the 50s, but it was a massive event movie at the time.
Ben Hur, the 1959 one, is one of the best movies men ever created!
Lew Wallace's book is under-read.
Americans were fixated on the Romans in the 50s and early 60s. Movies like Cleopatra, Sparticus, and Ben Hur were enormous draws. It was an extension of the Hollywood on the Tiber period, that included sappy films like Roman Holiday. It was as though the GIs came home from WWII believing they had just defeated the Persians and were ready for their Empire.
