"A lavish, colorful spectacle that will linger long in the eye of the beholder" (New York Daily News), this cinematic masterwork tells the story of Ben-Hur (brilliantly portrayed by Charlton Heston), a Judean prince whose unjust arrest and enslavement culminates in a breathtaking chariot race, wherein he wreaks a shattering vengeance upon the Roman Tribune who destroyed his family. Winner of a record eleven Academy Awards--including Best Picture and Best Actor (Heston)--Ben-Hur "ranks in the very forefront of the great motion pictures of the screen's history" (Motion Picture Herald).