"Ben-Hur" won a record 11 Academy Awards.
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Planning for the chariot race took nearly a year to complete. Seventy-eight horses were bought and imported from Yugoslavia and Sicily in November 1957, exercised into peak physical condition, and trained by Hollywood animal handler Glenn Randall to pull the quadriga (a Roman Empire chariot drawn by four horses abreast).
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I remember my parents taking us to see it at the Norfolk Drive-In on Virginia Beach Blvd. when it first came out in 1959.
What can you say about Chuck Heston? Planet of the Apes, The Omega Man, The Big Country, Major Dundee, Will Penny, Soylent Green, Midway, etc. etc.......