Ben Hur 1959 Movie Review

An historical epic with that scene that symbolises the magic of cinema om a cinemascope screen

Directed by William Wyler
Screenplay by Karl Tunberg[a]
Based on Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ 1880 novel by General Lew Wallace
Produced by Sam Zimbalist
Cinematography Robert L. Surtees
Edited by John D. Dunning Ralph E. Winters
Music by Miklós Rózsa
Cast
Charlton Heston as Judah Ben-Hur
Jack Hawkins as Quintus Arrius
Haya Harareet as Esther
Stephen Boyd as Messala
Hugh Griffith as Sheik Ilderim
Martha Scott as Miriam
Cathy O'Donnell as Tirzah
Sam Jaffe as Simonides
Finlay Currie as Balthasar
Frank Thring as Pontius Pilate
Terence Longdon as Drusus
George Relph as Tiberius Caesar
André Morell as Sextus
Laurence Payne as Joseph
Claude Heater as Jesus Christ (uncredited)[7]
José Greci as Mary, mother of Jesus (uncredited)[8]