Format:
DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:
Ben-Hur [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; a William Wyler's presentation ; produced by Sam Zimbalist ; screenplay, Karl Tunberg ; directed by William Wyler.
Edition:
50th Anniversary ed.
Publisher, Date:
Burbank, Cali. : Warner Home Video, 2012.
Description:
2 videodiscs (212 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
Experience the visual splendor, thundering action, and towering drama of the record-setting winner of eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Charlton Heston brings a muscular physical and moral presence to his role of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race, and a fateful encounter with Jesus Christ. An enduring and spellbinding spectacular.
Target Audience Note:
Rating: G.
Subjects:
Jesus Christ -- Drama.
Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905 -- Film adaptations.
Bible. N.T. -- History of Biblical events -- Drama.
Jewish men -- Drama.
Slaves -- Italy -- Rome -- Drama.
Rome -- History -- Tiberius, 14-37 -- Drama.
Genre:
Action and adventure films.
Feature films.
Other Author:
Heston, Charlton.
Griffith, Hugh, 1912-1980.
Hawkins, Jack, 1910-1973.
Warner Home Video (Firm)
Notes:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1959.
Title from container.
Based on the novel by Lew Wallace.
Director of photography, Robert L. Surtees ; art director, Edward Carfagno, William A. Horning ; editors, John D. Dunning, Ralph E. Winters ; music, Miklós Rózsa ; costume designer, Elizabeth Haffenden.
Charlton Heston, Hugh Griffith, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd.
DVD.
ISBN:
0780683617
9780780683617
Publisher or Distributor Number:
1000229475
Other Number:
775802480
System Availability:
2
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
2
Control Number:
705246
Call Number:
B
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
0
# System items in:
0
Medium:
[videorecording]