Costume designer Elizabeth Haffenden oversaw a staff of 100 wardrobe fabricators to make the costumes, and a workshop employing 200 artists and workmen provided the hundreds of friezes and statues needed in the film. Behrman, Gore Vidal, and Christopher Fry.īen-Hur had the largest budget ($15.175 million), as well as the largest sets built, of any film produced at the time. The screenplay is credited to Karl Tunberg, but includes contributions from Maxwell Anderson, S. A remake of the 1925 silent film with a similar title, it was adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. 212 minutes (excluding overture, intermission, and entr'acte) īen-Hur is a 1959 American religious epic film directed by William Wyler, produced by Sam Zimbalist, and starring Charlton Heston as the title character.
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