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Full film; runtime 02:20:52. 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.
English: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a 1925 American silent film by Fred Niblo with some scenes in Technicolor. Polski: Ben-Hur – amerykański film niemy z 1925 roku w reżyserii Freda Niblo z niektórymi scenami nakręconymi w Technicolorze .
December 30: MGM's biblical epic Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ premieres in New York City. It is the most expensive silent film ever made, costing $4 million (around $68 million when adjusted for inflation) [9] Hong Shen publishes the film script Mrs. Shentu in the Shanghai magazine Eastern Miscellany.
The first film that is confirmed to have had a $1 million budget is Foolish Wives (1922), with the studio advertising it as "The First Real Million Dollar Picture". [112] The most expensive film of the silent era was Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), [139] costing about $4 million—twenty-five times the $160,000 average cost of an MGM ...
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The 1925 film adaptation of Ben-Hur under director Fred Niblo starred Ramon Novarro as Ben-Hur and Francis X. Bushman as Messala. [92] Filming began in Italy and was completed in the United States. It cost MGM $3.9 million ($55 million in 2023 dollars), "making it the most expensive silent film in history". [91]
In 1925, Niblo was the principal director of the epic Ben-Hur, one of the more expensive films of the day but became the third highest-grossing silent film in cinema history. Niblo followed this success with two major 1926 works: The Temptress starring Greta Garbo in her second film in America and Norma Talmadge in Camille.
Ben-Hur Museum, renamed the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum; Club Sportivo Ben Hur, a sports club in Argentina; Ben Hur (automobile), an early car; Ben Hur trailer, a nickname for the World War II G-518 one-ton U.S. Army trailer; Tribe of Ben-Hur, an authorized fraternal order based on the book, later an insurance company