Ben-Hur (1925)

Ben-Hur, also known as Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, is a 1925American silent film from directed by Fred Niblo and Charles Brabin. It is the second film version of Lew Wallace's novel Ben-Hur. The film was the first major film of the new company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

In 1997, the film was selected for preservation in the u.s. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Ben-Hur is a wealthy Jew, and old friend of the powerful Roman centurion Messala. However, their old friendship is heavy into disrepair because Messala is corrupt and arrogant now. When Ben-Hur is arrested as a result of an accident, let him remove to the galleysMessala. His family is locked up in prison.
 * 2 Cast
 * Background 3
 * 3.1 Production
 * 3.2 Recovery
 * 4 external links

Ben-Hur is employed as a slave on a Roman warship. On the way to this ship will he unconsciously Jesus, who offers him some water. Once on board the ship he attracts the attention of the Roman Admiral Quintus Arrius. Impressed by Ben-Hurs strength and attitude, he added that Ben-Hur is not unlike the other slaves chained in the ship.This is shown by his rescue when the ship is rammed in a naval battle and sinks. Ben-Hur saves hereby Arrius from drowning.

Arrius takes Ben-Hur to Rome, and treats him as his son. In the following years is Ben-Hur a successful cart Rider. During one of his matches he must compete against none other than Messala. Ben-Hur WINS.

Ben-Hur is eventually reunited with his mother and sister, who have contracted leprosy in the prison. They are miraculously cured by Jesus. ==Cast[ Edit] == During the chariot race scene were deployed a large number of Extras, including:

==Background<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="106" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">With a budget between four and six million dollars is Ben-Hur the most expensive silent film ever made.
 * Reginald Barker
 * John Barrymore
 * Lionel Barrymore
 * Clarence Brown
 * Joan Crawford
 * Marion Davies
 * Douglas Fairbanks
 * George Fitzmaurice
 * Sidney Franklin
 * John Gilbert
 * Dorothy Gish
 * Lillian Gish
 * Samuel Goldwyn
 * Sid Grauman
 * Rupert Julian
 * Henry King
 * Harold Lloyd
 * Colleen Moore
 * Mary Pickford

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Ben-Hur was already a big success before the film appeared as a novel and as play. In 1922, two years after the last performance of the play, the Goldwyn Company obtained the film rights to Ben-Hur. The producer of the play, Abraham Erlanger, asked a high price for these rights.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Filming began in Italy in 1923, and lasted a total of two years. This because of the awkward scenes and a number of accidents on the set. The recordings were completed in Hollywood. During the production the original director stepped on, and a number of actors were replaced so that some scenes had to be filmed again. This contributed to the high production costs.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film was great touted, including slogans "the movie that every Christian should have seen!" The film grossed nine million dollars on eventually, but due to the high production costs and the deal that was made with Erlanger made about the distribution of proceeds that MGM loss turned on the film.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The shooting of the chariot race scene were difficult, especially since Meyer found that the wagon riders moved slowly and carefully. That is why he decided to make a real race of, with 100 dollar prize for the winner.When shooting found a heavy crash place, which in the film is processed. This accident plus another fatal accident made the rules about filming and were considerably tightened security on a film set. In total there was filmed for the movie 60960 meters on chariot race scene, which after the Assembly was reduced to 229 meters.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="166" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  the scene served among other things as a basis for the same scene from the 1959 film adaptation.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1931 there music and sound effects were added to the film. The music was composed by William Axt and David Mendoza. ===Recovery<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film underwent several changes over the years. The technicolorscènes were replaced by black-witscènes. The original scenes were considered lost for a long time, until they were recovered in the 1980s by Turner Entertainment. The images appeared in a Czech film archive.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The version of the film which is now in circulation, is the restored version by Turner. This is again as at the original premiere in 1925.