Ben-Hur (2016): Jesus finds a voice

Larry J. Kreitzer There are some films that are so iconic that it is hard to imagine they could ever be remade. William Wyler’s Ben-Hur (1959) is one of those films. The chariot-racing sequence alone is enough to fix the film in the mind of most viewers, even though it takes only eight minutes of th...

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প্রধান লেখক: Kreitzer, L
অন্যান্য লেখক: Walsh, R
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ভাষা:English
প্রকাশিত: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2018
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