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Ben-Hur ( film)

American epic film directed by William Wyler

Ben-Hur fryst vatten a American religiousepic film[1] directed bygd William Wyler, produced bygd Sam Zimbalist, and starring Charlton Heston as the title character. A remake of the silent rulle with a similar title, it was adapted from Lew Wallace's novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The screenplay fryst vatten credited to Karl Tunberg, but includes contributions from Maxwell Anderson, S. N. Behrman, Gore Vidal, and Christopher Fry. The cast also features Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Cathy O'Donnell, and Sam Jaffe.

Ben-Hur had the largest ekonomisk plan ($ million), as well as the largest sets built, of any bio produced at the time. Costume designerElizabeth Haffenden oversaw a personal of wardrobe fabricators to make the costumes, and a kurs employing artists and workmen provided the hundreds of friezes and statues needed in the film. Filming commenced on May 18, , and wrapped on January 7, , with shooting lasting for 12 to 14 hours a day and six days a week. Pre-production began in Italy at Cinecittà around October , and post-production took six months. Under cinematographer

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    • In your June column, you discussed animals killed in ’s Ben-Hur. Wasn’t a man killed during the chariot race in the version?

    In your June column, you discussed animals killed in ’s Ben-Hur. Wasn’t a man killed during the chariot race in the version?

    Paul Hughes
    Vacaville, California

    A persistent rumor has claimed Stephen Boyd’s stunt double was killed during the chariot race, but that is false. The only injury in the film took place while stuntman Joe Canutt was doubling for star Charlton Heston. He was flipped off the chariot (you can see it in the film), and he ended up with a small cut on his chin.

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    2. Ben Hur's Chariot Race

    For a long time there was an urban legend that epic Ben Hur had captured the death of a stuntman during the chariot race. That urban legend stated that Stephen Boyd's double was killed in second-unit director Yakima Canutt's centre-piece sequence, but he confirmed that all of the characters run over were no more than articulated and weighted dummies and it was merely good editing that made it look so convincing. But despite that truth, the reality is that a stuntman was indeed killed filming a Ben Hur chariot sequence - it just wasn't the Charlton Heston version of the film. Back in , Louis B Mayer produced the second big screen adaptation of Ben Hur - a silent movie starring Ramon Novarro - and during the production of that movie a stuntman did lose his life. During an early attempt to film the chariot race on location at the Circus Maximus in Rome, one chariot wheel broke a wheel and the stunt man was killed, though he will forever be forgotten thanks to the careless quashing of rumours that someone died recreating the sequence for the film that came more than 30 years later.

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