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Lewis Wallace
Apr 1827 -- Feb 1905
Lew Wallace was a lawyer who served as a Union general in the Civil War and, later, as territorial governor of New Mexico, where he worked to bring an end to the bloody Lincoln County War. Ben Hur, a Tale of the Christ is the most famous of his ten novels and biographies and was an immediate best-seller. It has been adapted for film four times. Wallace is the only novelist to have his statue in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U. S. capitol.
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"By what magic do you appear here bearing the name of a consul of Rome?"
A tale of the Holy Land under Roman occupation at the time of Christ, from a novel by Lew Wallace. Juda Ben Hur (Charlton Heston) is sentenced to a lifetime of slavery aboard a Roman galley by the ambitious and amoral Roman tribune Messala (Stephen Boyd). Years later, Juda returns to Judea as the adopted son of an influential Roman patrician (Jack Hawkins) whose life Juda has saved during a great sea battle. Juda and Messala vie in a chariot race (staged by legendary stunt coordinator Yakima Canutt) that makes movie car chases seem tame by comparison. Sam Jaffe heads up a strong supporting cast. 
1959, Directed by William Wyler
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A Face in the Crowd The African Queen All Quiet on the Western Front The Apartment Bambi Ben Hur
The Best Years of Our Lives
Bugsy Malone Cabaret The Caine Mutiny Casablanca Chicago The Defiant Ones Doctor Strangelove
Double Indemnity El Cid Elmer Gantry Fantasia Fiddler on the Roof For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
From Here To Eternity Funny Girl Glory Go For Broke The Grapes of Wrath Hamlet
The Iceman Cometh Inherit the Wind It’s a Wonderful Life Jesus Christ Superstar Judgment at Nuremburg
Julius Caesar Key Largo Lawrence of Arabia The Learning Tree The List of Adrian Messenger Little Big Man
My Fair Lady The Neverending Story North by Northwest The Owl and the Pussycat Porgy and Bess
Pride of the Yankees The Producers Purlie Quo Vadis The Red Badge of Courage Requiem for a Heavyweight
Rhapsody in Blue The Sand Pebbles The Sea Wolf Seven Samurai Ship of Fools Some Like It Hot
The Sound of Music South Pacific Spartacus The Spirit of St. Louis Stalag 17
Sunset Boulevard
To Kill a Mockingbird The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Twelve Angry Men Twelve O’Clock High
2001 A Space Odyssey The Victors Victor Victoria Watership Down West Side Story
The Wizard of Oz Yankee Doodle Dandy
The Yearling
