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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) was a Silent Films - Drama Film directed by J.J. Cohn and Rex Ingram and produced by Louis B. Mayer.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1997.

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Abraham L. Erlanger was the producer of a very successful stage production that had been running for 25 years. In 1922, two years after the play's last tour, the Goldwyn Company purchased the film rights, though Erlanger insisted on a generous profit participation deal and total approval over every detail of the production.
Ramon Novarro's weekly salary of $10,000 was 80 times more than what he earned while filming The Prisoner of Zenda - $125 per week - just three years previously.
Second-unit director B. Reeves Eason had 62 assistants when working on the chariot race.
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National Film Registry

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Released 1925
Inducted 1997
(Silent)




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Also directed by Fred Niblo




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