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69 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | Ben-Hur (1960)
We are 69 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards and we bid farewell to our good friend William Wyler who has brought us bangers such as Mrs.Miniver and The Best Years of Our Lives but now brings us his arguably most famous Oscars work - 1960's Ben-Hur.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ sounds like a curious novel to adapt if you are a famous Jewish Hollywood director. Alas, William Wyler set out to make "a thinking man's biblical epic" in direct competition to Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments. Shots fired! They both even star Charlton Heston. Ben-Hur is the story of Judah Ben-Hur, a…
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