Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) | |
| Director(s) | Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin (uncredited), Christy Cabanne (uncredited), J.J. Cohn (uncredited), Rex Ingram (uncredited) |
| Producer(s) | Louis B. Mayer |
| Top Genres | Action, Adventure, Drama, Film Adaptation, Historical, Romance |
| Top Topics | Ancient World, Book-Based, Revenge, Romance (Drama) |
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) was a Silent Films - Drama Film directed by J.J. Cohn and Rex Ingram and produced by Louis B. Mayer.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1997.
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Advertised as "The Picture Every Christian Ought to See!"
According to The Guinness Book of World Records (2002), the movie contains the most edited scene in cinema history. Editor Lloyd Nosler compressed 200,000 feet (60,960 meters) of film into a mere 750 feet (228.6 meters) for the chariot race scene - a ratio of 267:1 (film shot to film shown).
Clark Gable and then future wife Carole Lombard first met in late 1924 while working as extras on the set of this film. They would run into each other off and on again for the next year and a half (the two also appeared as extras in the epic The Johnstown Flood), but would not formally meet until 1931.
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According to The Guinness Book of World Records (2002), the movie contains the most edited scene in cinema history. Editor Lloyd Nosler compressed 200,000 feet (60,960 meters) of film into a mere 750 feet (228.6 meters) for the chariot race scene - a ratio of 267:1 (film shot to film shown).
Clark Gable and then future wife Carole Lombard first met in late 1924 while working as extras on the set of this film. They would run into each other off and on again for the next year and a half (the two also appeared as extras in the epic The Johnstown Flood), but would not formally meet until 1931.
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