Movie review: Chariots of dire
16 September 2016 - 10:05
A reviewer for The New Yorker once described the 1959 epic Academy Awards-slayer Ben Hur as a "four-hour Sunday school lesson". In this age of shorter attention spans, a four-hour remake of William Wyler's film would be ill-advised.Adaptations of Lew Wallace's 19th century bestseller, subtitled "a tale of the Christ", have battled with how to make the story of Jesus as interesting as that of the struggles of its other protagonist, Judah Ben Hur.
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