Ben-Hur
(1959)Ben-Hur 1959
Names such as Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd and Jack Hawkins take the leading roles in Ben-Hur, which was released in 1959 and managed to win 11 Academy Awards. It is an Adventure, Drama and Epic movie directed by William Wyler, based on the book of the same name by Ben Hur Lew Wallace. Ben Hur, which has a watch time of 3 and a half hours, continues to maintain its IMDB score of 8.1 since 1959, thanks to 133,932 votes. The movie, which was shot with a budget of 15 million dollars, has earned close to 150 million dollars in the world. Ben-Hur was a wealthy prince who lived in 26 BC, as well as a merchant. He has not met his childhood friend named Messala for many years and during this time he has not met, his friend has risen to the position of the ruler of Rome. Messala, who was away from the city of Jerusalem for many years, has now become one of the important commanders of the Roman army. Ben-Hur fights for the freedom of the Jews at the cost of his life and asks his childhood friend Messala Ben Hur to identify and find the Jews who were critical of Rome. However, Ben-Hur rejects this offer and the paths of two childhood friends begin to diverge in different directions as a result of the incident that happened when the paths of the two childhood friends were fully united.