Who doesn’t know the classic movie Ben Hur starring the legendary Charlton Heston, which won 11 Oscars Most people will have seen it.
However what many don’t realize that the 1959 version had in fact been the 2nd remake of the story of Ben Hur, The 1st time it hit the screens was in in 1907(pictured above) and the 2nd cinema release was in 1925, although it had an alternative title then “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ”
Who could forget the classic 1944 thriller “Gaslight ” starring Charles Boyer and the stunning Ingrid Bergman. A movie that has become a classic in so many ways and even resulted in a verb being created “Gaslighting” a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group.
But the story had first been adapted as a play in 1938…
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