Ben-Hur Blu-ray

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Anno Domini the seventh year of Augustus Caesar&s reign In the Roman province of Judea Jews return to the city of their birth for the census A bright star in the night over Bethlehem marks the birth of Jesus Christ Years later Roman commander Messala (Stephen Boyd) who was brought up in Judea takes command of the Roman garrison in Jerusalem His Jewish boyhood friend Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) greets him Messala is delighted But when Judah refuses to name Jewish patriots Messala sentences him to the slave galleys & imprisons his mother Miriam (Martha Scott) & sister Tirzah (Cathy O& Donnell) Judah vows revenge In BEN-HUR William Wyler&s much-lauded epic the story of Judah&s search for his mother & sister & his quest for revenge intersects with crucial biblical events such as the Sermon on the Mount & the crucifixion Wyler gets fine performances from Heston Boyd Jack Hawkins (as a Roman admiral who befriends Judah) & Hugh Griffith (as an Arab sheik who dreams of racing his beautiful white horses against Messala) Among BEN-HUR&s vivid dramatic sequences are a violent sea battle & the famous chariot race that pits Judah against Messala in one of cinema&s great action sequences