Ben Hur

[phalanx]

Just found it (original colorized ) on DVD. Two disk set i forgot how long that movie is. It took two nights. Totaled 4 hour movie. Its a story of Christ, that’s what the cover and the introduction said. There is a remake but thats not what i wanted.

[Bob Riebe]

I have the VHS cassette, I think I will watch again, it has been a few years.

[phalanx]

I have the VHS cassette, I think I will watch again, it has been a few years.

Its long, as a kid i don't remember sitting there watching it that long.

[ironglow]

  Based upon a book written by Lew Wallace, written when he was territorial governor of New Mexico territory. 
    A good story, starring the inimitable Charlton Hesston.

  Wallace was a veteran of both the Mexican-American war, and the Civil War.  Many of the same West Point grads that served in the Mexican war together, were combat foes during the Civil War.

[Dee]

I don't remember if I watched Ben Hur when it came out. I think I may have, but I wouldn't set through it now.

[Bob Riebe]

My Mother's mother, even though they were farmer, would often drive into the the local cities to take in movies so as a youth I got to go to a lot of movies, including some in Twin Cities 60 miles away. (Grandma would take the train whose depot was only a few blocks from down twon Minneapolis, before Ma got married).
I got to see all of the big Epic movies of the late fifties into the early seventies.

I checked the Wiki and it took 200 miles of actual racing to put together the race for the film, it does not say how long the corners were but the straights were 1,500 feet long.

[oldandslow2]

MY parents were farmers and it was before daylight until after dark Monday thru Friday and before daylight until noon on Saturdays and we kept the Sabbath. There were exceptions because when you are a dryland farmer sometimes Mother Nature dictates that you work all day Saturday and Sunday and sometimes at night. When there were no exceptions we cleaned up and went to town on Saturday afternoon to get groceries and then attend a movie. I saw Ben Hur when it originally hit the silver screen. It had an intermission half way thru. I have watched it on TV a couple of times since. I enjoyed it at the theater and on TV. Somehow TV diminishes movies that I originally saw at the theater. Bullit is a perfect example. In the theater I was pulling on the armrests of my seat during the chase scenes like I was in the car as they felt so realistic. When I watched it on TV it was just another movie but still a good one.