Great sites
Quotes
Pontius Pilate: A grown man knows the world he lives in. For the moment, that world is Rome.
Mistakes
One of the first shots in the picture is a wide angle establishing shot showing a street scene in Jerusalem, with milling people, animals, etc. A tall figure in the background is slowly walking toward the camera. The figure is Charlton Heston, and the shot is an earlier segment of a shot used later in the movie when Ben-Hur is returning home from a trade expedition. Heston's costume is the same, but he's only clearly recognizable in the second sequence. Since the two scenes are set 33 years apart, perhaps the earlier figure is Ben-Hur's father. See more...
Trivia
The spectator crowd in the chariot race scene was partially made up of small wood models. See more...
