Ben-Hur
- Release Date
- November 18, 1959
- Director
- William Wyler
- Cast
- Charlton Heston , Jack Hawkins , Haya Harareet , Stephen Boyd , Hugh Griffith , Martha Scott
- Runtime
- 212 minutes
- Main Genre
- Action
- Writers
- Lew Wallace , Karl Tunberg , Maxwell Anderson , S.N. Behrman , Christopher Fry , Gore Vidal
- Tagline
- The Entertainment Experience of a Lifetime!
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