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The chariot race in Ben-Hur was directed by Andrew Marton and Yakima Canutt, [123] filmmakers who often acted as second unit directors on other people's films. Each man had an assistant director, who shot additional footage. [ 124 ]
For Ben-Hur (1959), Canutt staged the chariot race with nine teams of four horses. He trained Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd to do their own charioteering. He and his crew spent five months on the race sequence. [26] In contrast to the 1925 film, not one horse was hurt, and no humans experienced serious injuries. His son Joe Canutt, while ...
The chariot race in Ben-Hur was directed by Andrew Marton and Yakima Canutt, [111] filmmakers who often acted as second unit directors on other people's films. Each man had an assistant director, who shot additional footage. [ 112 ]
Ben Hur is a 1907 American silent drama film set in ancient Rome, the first screen adaptation of Lew Wallace's popular 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Co-directed by Sidney Olcott and Frank Oakes Rose, this " photoplay " was produced by the Kalem Company of New York City, and its scenes, including the climactic chariot race, were ...
Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ had been a great success as a novel, and was adapted into a stage play which ran for twenty-five years. In 1922, two years after the play's last tour, the Goldwyn company purchased the film rights to Ben-Hur. The play's producer, Abraham Erlanger, put a heavy price on the screen rights.
William Millar (4 July 1931 – 2 June 1977), better known by his stage name Stephen Boyd, was an actor from Northern Ireland.He emerged as a leading man during the late 1950s with his role as the villainous Messala in Ben-Hur (1959), a role that earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) approached Panavision founder Robert Gottschalk in the late 1950s to create a large-format widescreen system capable of filling the extremely wide screens of Cinerama theaters while using a single projector, and would also be capable of producing high-quality standard 70 mm and 35 mm CinemaScope prints, which Cinerama's three-strip process did not allow for.
With the chariot race as its central attraction and the character of Judah emerging as a "heroic action figure", [5] Ben-Hur enjoyed a wide popularity among readers, similar to the dime novels of its day; [6] however, its continued appearance on popular lists of great American literature remained a source of frustration for many literary ...