Ben-Hur
- IMDb link: 0052618
- IMDb rating: 8.1 (271,745 votes) Search
- Genres: Adventure, Drama, History
- Director: Charlton Heston, William Wyler
- Cast: Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet and others
- Release date: 18 Nov 1959
- Release year: 1959
- Runtime: 212 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: leprosy, roman empire, talking to a horse, leper colony, jewish, false accusation, ancient rome, blood, person on fire, amputation
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A Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, but it's not long before he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
When Prince Judah Ben-Hur hears that his childhood friend Messala has been named to command the Roman garrison of Jerusalem, he is thrilled. He soon finds, however, that his friend has changed and has become an arrogant conqueror, full of the grandeur of Rome. After Judah refuses to divulge the names of Jews who oppose Roman rule, Messala decides to make an example of him and sends him off as a galley slave. Through fate and good fortune, Judah survives the galleys and manages to return to Jerusalem in the hopes of finding his mother and sister, who were also imprisoned, and to seek revenge against his one-time friend.
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