The new movie version of Ben-Hur that’s about to land in theaters, featuring Morgan Freeman, isn’t just a reimagining of one classic movie. The hit 1880 Lew Wallace novel of that name has been ...

But before either version of the film existed, there was a 500+ page novel called Ben-Hur: A Tale of Christ, published in 1880 by Lew Wallace. You may not have heard of it, but your great ...

But even if the makers of the new “Ben-Hur” were merely trying to match, and not improve upon, the 1959 sword-and-sandal epic starring Charlton Heston as the Jewish vengeance-seeker from the ...

Ben-Hur’s production encompassed 300 sets, nine sound stages and consumed 1.1 million feet of film, yet despite its epic proportions it never loses sight of its compelling story of Jewish prince ...