"There's nothing else I can hope for" - Ben Hur [1959]

Directed by William Wyler
Screenplay by Karl Tunberg
Based on Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
Produced by Sam Zimbalist
Starring: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Cathy O'Donnell, Sam Jaffe
Cinematography: Robert L. Surtees
Edited by John D. Dunning, Ralph E. Winters
Music by Miklós Rózsa
Production company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by Loew's, Inc.
Release date: November 18, 1959
Running time: 212 minutes (excluding overture, intermission, and entr'acte)
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $15.2 million
Box office: $146.9 million (initial release)