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Auction History Result e054 BEN-HUR linen special movie poster 1959 Heston, Wyler Date Sold 12/18/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Linenbacked Special Movie Poster (measures 22 1/4" x 28 3/4") (Learn More) 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. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this was a special poster printed by MGM when this classic movie was being filmed in Rome in 1959. It is printed one side only and it has a montage of images and a telegram telling about what was happening. We have seen a similar poster that has entirely different images, but is otherwise basically the same, so perhaps MGM did one of these each month as the movie was being filmed, but they are not dated in any way. If anyone knows more about these posters, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had paper loss at the crossfold and some creases, smudges, and some separation on both foldlines. There were some creases, tears, smudges, and paper loss around the edges of the poster. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see some signs of the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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