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Ben Hur
Mar 26, 2016 20:40:02 GMT 10
Post by pim on Mar 26, 2016 20:40:02 GMT 10
The chariot race sequence is just about to start on the Gem channel. It's 9:40 pm eastern.
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Ben Hur
Mar 27, 2016 22:34:13 GMT 10
Post by pim on Mar 27, 2016 22:34:13 GMT 10
Quite a sequence, that chariot race. And not a computer-generated image in any of it. It's what won the movie a string of Academy Awards. Charlton Heston is better in Ben-Hur than in the Ten Commandments, although it's ... how did they used to promote these sorts of movies ... "a towering cinematic triumph of awesome proportions". Both of them were Cold War movies, the Ten Commandments just more blatantly so, with Cecil B de Mille's introduction saying as much and leaving the audience in no doubt about its ideological purpose.
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