Despite winning 11 Oscars and being a box office phenomenon in 1959, is ‘Ben-Hur’ now underrated?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd in 1959's 'Ben-Hur.' (Photo: Everett) The relationship between Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince, and ...

With an estimated production cost that’s in the vicinity of $100M, MGM and Paramount certainly didn’t build Ben-Hur to fail this weekend. But if there’s one Come-to-Jesus from this remake’s estimated ...

Ben-Hur is the biggest of the big, the mightiest of the mighty, the most epic of the epic. Released in 1959, Ben-Hur was the event film of its day and sold 111 Million tickets, which makes it the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you watch the 1959 "Ben-Hur," a studio classic so big and stodgy and literal that even the dialogue seems square-jawed, there ...

It’s been exactly 66 years since Ben-Hur made movie history—and frankly, the Academy Awards have been chasing that level of dominance ever since. On April 4, 1960, the sweeping historical epic took ...

A backstage tale about the 1959 version suggested that Wyler urged Stephen Boyd, who played Messala, to imply that he had a homoerotic thing for his brother. True or not, the idea is delicious. None ...