A Ben-Hur remake stumbles. But how about those horses?
by Stephanie Zacharek
Aug 27, 2016
2 minutes
LEPROSY JUST DOESN’T HAVE THE cachet it used to. In the 1925 and 1959 film versions of Ben-Hur—as well as in the novel on which they’re based, Lew Wallace’s stalwart 1880 epic Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ—the mother and sister of Jewish nobleman Judah Ben-Hur suffer a long and unjust imprisonment, during which
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