The Sheik was portrayed by Hugh Griffith. He won the Academy Award for this role as Best Supporting Actor. If one aspires to be a salesperson, watch and listen to his work. It's absolutely brilliant!
One of the greatest movies ever made! There are a few others and none from Hollywood after the 70's! But Hugh Griffith was amazing...the scene in the Roman bath with Messala is terrific-he fishes Messala in so well! Great film...William Wyler...well acted, wonderful message, great acting, good dialogue! Old Hollywood!
R.I.P. TO ALL THE CAST, CREW & PRODUCERS WHO WERE INVOLVED MAKING A SUPERB, FANTASTIC, STUNNING, FABULOUS EPIC OF ALL EPICS MEGA TIMELESS MOVIE WINNING 11 OSCARS HANDS DOWN !!! RICHLY DESSERVED INDEED !!! SEEN THIS MOVIE AGED 9 YEARS TO 72 YEARS !!!! GOT TO BE TRILLION TIMES !! FROM U.K. (2021).
RIP Hugh Griffith (May 30, 1912 - May 14, 1980), aged 67 And RIP Charlton Heston (October 4, 1923 - April 5, 2008), aged 84 You both will be remembered as legends.
Looking at Charlton Heston is always an enchantment but I’m sure that in those ancient times and places, people looked more like the Sheikh than like too american Hollywood star looking Heston.....
Precisely why Cecile B DeMille thought that Heston should play Moses. In the 1950s Americans wanted Biblical heroes to look like Americans..... But at least back then they admired the Bible.
But they left out what comes next in this scene which Belshazzar says “and you want to kill him I can see it in your eyes, God inevitably deal with him Judah Ben Hur? why cant you accept the judgment of God, I don’t believe in miracles, your whole life is a miracle God spoke to me out of the darkness and led me to a village where a child was born and in this child God would live and He is now to begin His work and all our lives will be touched!” Glory to God!!!
I personally hate watching a film made in English with Spanish dubbing..cause 99% of the time they mess up,but I've seen a few scenes of this film in Spanish and it's not that bad
@CIA Imports we are here on this Earth and we staying by God's command so we won't see ur decsendants breeding pigs . All empires are gone long ago and we still exist hhhh gotta be for a reason hhhh
It's interesting the point of the picture is that Ben Hur doesn't have to settle scores himself but let me say this I think that we're only human and I think that when evil things are done to us we want retribution period you might note the souls under the altar in Revelation saying how long the Lord before you avenge our blood so I think it's a normal thing as created beings to realize that you know that we do want Justice
The Sheik would have been a Bedouin, not an "Arab". The Egyptians called the Bedouins " Sand-Travellers" for their nomadic life style. And there was No Islam in 33CE...that was invented in 632CE...the land the Romans called " Arabia Felix" ( "Happy Araby") Was somewhat tongue-in-cheek...being a trackless desert for the most part, inhabited by quarrelsome nomadic tribes with goats and camels!!!
the weak point: a ramming scene during sea battle.Big plan on a model galley while there was ramming scene.All the figurines soldiers moved in the same time and failed to fall into the water.This scene should have been filmed in a far background in order to make figurines invisibles just before showing the spur getting into Ben hur's galley in a close-up (it was done).In a big movie like this,all has to be real like chariots race which was an epic moment of cinema history
