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Movie Overview
Cast
• Charlton Heston
• Jack Hawkins
• Stephen Boyd
Director
• William Wyler
MPAA Rating
G
Ben-Hur (1959)

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OFCS Rating: 89% Fresh
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4/5
"It is one of the most resplendent films you'll ever see."  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

C
"Mostly tedious Sunday school tale."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

"Shows how difficult forgiveness is once the heart has hardened in hate."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

3/5
"Widescreen biblical epic is bloated with spectacle and thin on plot."  Netflix  James Rocchi

4/5
"Charlton Heston plays Charlton Heston, but his charismatic macho woodeness carries the film like no other actor of his day."  ToxicUniverse.com  John A. Nesbit

8/10
"...not only a rousing adventure, at its core it has a genuine heart."  DVDTown.com  John J. Puccio

9/10
"Ben-Hur is not great art. But it is great fun."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

A
"The grandest of Hollywood's classic biblical epics… doesn't transcend its genre, with its spectacle and melodrama, but it does these things about as well as possible."  Decent Films Guide  Steven D. Greydanus

3/4
"The kind of sweeping pseudo-biblical epic that Hollywood was famous for. If not for Heston's weak performance and Boyd's ludicrous one, the film might have been better."  Oscar Guy  Wesley Lovell
OFCS Rating: 89% Fresh
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