By the late 1950’s lavish, wide-screen spectaculars were clearly in danger of going the way of film noir and shoot-’em-up westerns, and dying from overexposure. Then in 1959 M-G-M provided what was instantly regarded as a landmark in the epic film genre: Ben Hur. Departing radically from the typical Cecil B. De Mille kind of … Continue reading Ben Hur: 1959’s Ben Hur Remains One of the Greatest Film Epics Ever.