Directed by William Wyler Writing credits: Lew Wallace (novel) Karl Tunberg (screenplay) ============== Plot Outline: When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. =============== cast: Charlton Heston .... Judah Ben-Hur Jack Hawkins .... Quintus Arrius Haya Harareet .... Esther Stephen Boyd .... Messala Hugh Griffith .... Sheik Ilderim Martha Scott .... Miriam Cathy O'Donnell .... Tirzah Sam Jaffe .... Simonides Finlay Currie .... Balthasar/Narrator in pre-credits sequence Frank Thring .... Pontius Pilate Terence Longdon .... Drusus George Relph .... Tiberius Caesar André Morell .... Sextus |
