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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, the classic 1960 (it premiered in late 1959, to qualify for the Oscars, but it is generally considered a 1960 movie) William Wyler (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) Biblical religious adventure epic ("The Entertainment experience of a lifetime!"; "The world's greatest show..."; "The world's most honored motion picture!"; "Winner of 11 academy awards including 'Best Picture'"; "The thrilling chariot race is about to begin. As all Rome cheers, 'Ben-Hur' moves his team to the starting line."; "A story of the people and times of The Christ"; "Based on the classic novel by General Lew Wallace"; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award; winner of 11 Academy Awards, which was the record won by a single movie at that time) starring Charlton Heston (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; in the title role as Judah Ben-Hur), Jack Hawkins (as Quintus Arrius), Haya Harareet (as Esther), Stephen Boyd (as Messala), Hugh Griffith (winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as Sheik Ilderim), Martha Scott (as Miriam), Cathy O'Donnell (as Tirzah), Sam Jaffe (as Simonides), Frank Thring (as Pontius Pilate), and Claude Heater (as Jesus, but his face is never shown throughout the movie, although you see parts of his body). Note that this classic novel was written in 1880, and there were numerous stage versions and an early silent version in 1907, but the definitive silent version was made in 1925 by Fred Niblo with Ramon Novarro in the leading role, and then this classic sound version.
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Important Added Info: Note that there were both 4" x 6" Japanese lenticular postcards and 10 1/2" x 13 1/2" lenticular standees made for the 1969 re-release of this movie. We have auctioned a number of the postcards, but this is only the fourth time we have auctioned this standee (but we have only auctioned one in the last 13 years), so it is quite rare. Note that it was basically impossible to get an image of this lenticular poster that showed its "3-D" effect! You will just have to take our word for it that it is a very cool (and very early) lenticular poster, that needs to be seen in person to be appreciated! Please note that this is a standee, as it has a full standee backing. Also note that this lenticular poster is from the 1969 re-release of this classic movie. We know that because original 1960 posters from this movie all say "filmed in Camera 65" on them. This refers to the anamorphic 65mm lens process used to shoot the picture. 70mm prints for the 1969 re-release required an anamorphic lens, a curved screen, and had an aspect ratio of 2.76:1. For the 1969 reissue, all 70mm prints were spherical 70...meant to be projected on a flat screen with an aspect ration of 2.20:1. This is why this standee says, "IN 70mm and FULL STEREOPHONIC SOUND - Technicolor" instead of "filmed in Camera 65".

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