Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ
1925
Alternative Titles
Ben Hur (Alternative)
BFI identifier
47629For further information on how to access the film and associated materials, check the Notes on the Print under the Technical tab.
Synopsis
N/A- Production Country: USA
- Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation, Thames T
- BFI Category: Fiction
- Source: N/A
Cast
Ramon Novarro (Ben-Hur)
Francis X. Bushman (Messala)
May Mcavoy (Esther)
Betty Bronson (Mary)
Claire Mcdowell (Princess of Hur)
Kathleen Key (Tirzah)
Carmel Myers (Iras)
Nigel De Brulier (Simonides)
Mitchell Lewis (Sheik Ilderim)
Leo White (Sanballat)
Frank Currier (Arrius)
Charles Belcher (Balthazar)
Dale Fuller (Amrah)
Winter Hall (Joseph)
Russell Simpson ([extra])
Nola Luxford ([hand of Jesus])
Olga Calve ([])
Credits
Production Company billing:
©Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in arrangement with Abraham L. Erlanger, Charles B. Dillingham and Florenz Ziegfeld Jr
Director: Fred Niblo
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation
[(1987)Production]: Thames Television, Channel Four
[(1987)Presented by]: Photoplay Productions
[Producer]: Louis B. Mayer, Samuel Goldwyn, Irving Thalberg
[(1987)Produced by]: David Gill, Kevin Brownlow
[Production Manager]: Harry Edington
[Production Assistant]: Silas Clegg, William Wyler, Henry Hathaway
Directorial Associate: Alfred L. Raboch, Reeves Eason
[Directoral Associate]: Christy Cabanne
[Additional Director (Nativity Seq)]: Ferdinand P. Earle
Assistant Director: Charles Stallings
Scenario: Carey Wilson
Continuity: Carey Wilson, Bess Meredyth
Titles: Katharine Hilliker, H.H. Caldwell
Adaptation: June Mathis
Based on the book by: General Lew Wallace
Director of Photography: René Guissart, Percy Hilburn
Director of Photography [Technicolor]: Karl Struss
Director of Photography: Clyde De Vinna
[Additional Photography]: E. Burton Steene, George Meehan
[Technicolor Staff]: J.A. Ball, René Guissart, Roy Musgrave, Wm. Howard Green
[Trick Photography]: Paul Eagler
[Travelling Matte]: Frank D. Williams
Editor: Lloyd Nosler
[Assistant Editor]: Basil Wrangell, William Holmes, Harry Reynolds, Ben Lewis
Settings: Cedric Gibbons, Horace Jackson
[Settings]: A. Arnold Gillespie, Harold Grieve
Art Effects: Ferdinand P. Earle
[Art Effects]: Frank Williams, Kenneth Gordon Maclean, Padre Berier
[Ship Construction]: Fratelli Neri
[Ship Design]: Camillo Mastrocinque
Costumes: Theaterkunst Hermann J. Kaufmann
[Music]: William Axt, David Mendoza
[(1987)Score composed and conducted by]: Carl Davis
[(1987)Orchestration by]: David Matthews, Colin Matthews
[(1987)Music performed by]: London Philharmonic Orchestra
[(1987)Music recording]: Richard Bradford
(1987) Orchestra Leader]: David Nolan
Film Technical Information
- Original Length: N/A
- Length of BFI Viewing Print: 903 ft
- Support: Non-Viewable Master
- Black and White
- Format: 35 mm
Comments on the print:
The BFI only possesses a small element of this film. As it has been much discussed elsewhere, no analysis is pending on this website..
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