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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Gregory Peck,
Jean Simmons,
Carroll Baker,
Charlton Heston,
Burl Ives
Director:
William Wyler
William Wyler directed this epic Western, about the clash of East and West, intellect and action. Gregory Peck stars as a sea captain who moves way out West to marry Carroll Baker and become part of the ranch owned by her father (Charles Bickford). But he discovers that daddy's top hand (Charlton Heston) carries a torch for Baker and doesn't particularly like Peck stepping into his place. Peck also finds himself caught in the midst of a power struggle between Bickford and his surly neighbour, Burl Ives (and his reprehensibly bullying son, Chuck Connors). The Big Country is a long, sprawling tale that works because its characters are played by movie stars who know h...
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Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Charlton Heston,
Janet Leigh,
Marlene Dietrich,
Orson Welles
Director:
Orson Welles
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Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Charlton Heston,
James Franciscus,
Roddy McDowall,
Kim Hunter,
Claude Akins
Director:
Franklin J. Schaffner, Ted Post, Don Taylor, J. Lee Thompson, Tim Burton
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Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Charlton Heston,
Roddy McDowall
Director:
Franklin J. Schaffner, Ted Post, Don Taylor, J. Lee Thompson
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Charlton Heston,
Jack Hawkins,
Stephen Boyd,
Haya Harareet,
Hugh Griffith
Director:
William Wyler
Ben-Hur scooped an unprecedented 11 Academy Awards in 1959 and, unlike some later rivals to this record-breaking win, richly deserved every single one. This is epic filmmaking on a scale that had not been seen before, and is unlikely ever to be seen again. It cost a staggering 15 million dollars and was one of the largest film productions ever undertaken: the Circus Maximus set alone covered 18 acres and was filled with 40,000 tons of Mediterranean sand. But it's not just running time or a cast of thousands that makes an epic, it's the subject-matter that counts and in Ben-Hur the subject is rich, detailed and sensitively handled. Despite both the original n...
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Charlton Heston,
Laurence Olivier,
Richard Johnson,
Ralph Richardson,
Alexander Knox
Director:
Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon
Set in the expanse of the Sudan desert in the midst of holy war, Khartoum (1966) plays like an attempt to work the Lawrence of Arabia magic on the (mostly) true story of eccentric British general Charles "Chinese" Gordon in 1884 North Africa. The magnificent opening desert battle suggests David Lean's epic sweep, at least until the film settles into a more modest story of political games, military standoffs, and a battle of wits and wiles between two fierce leaders. Charlton Heston plays the Christian soldier as cocky, unconventional maverick, and Laurence Olivier (behind heavy make-up and a thick black beard) is almost as good as his cagey nemesis the Mahdi...
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Charlton Heston,
Jack Hawkins,
Stephen Boyd
Director:
William Wyler
Ben-Hur scooped an unprecedented 11 Academy Awards in 1959 and, unlike some later rivals to this record-breaking win, richly deserved every single one. This is epic filmmaking on a scale that had not been seen before, and is unlikely ever to be seen again. It cost a staggering 15 million dollars and was one of the largest film productions ever undertaken: the Circus Maximus set alone covered 18 acres and was filled with 40,000 tons of Mediterranean sand. But it's not just running time or a cast of thousands that makes an epic, it's the subject-matter that counts and in Ben-Hur the subject is rich, detailed and sensitively handled. Despite both the original n...
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Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Charlton Heston,
Sophia Loren,
John Fraser,
Michael Hordern,
Andrew Cruickshank
Director:
Anthony Mann
Sumptuous in every way, visually magnificent, with grandiose sets, panoramic Spanish vistas and intricately detailed costumes, possessor of one of cinema's greatest music scores, boasting vast and astonishingly kinetic battles, and breathing heroic virtue in every scene, El Cid is the very epitome of epic. For this reworking of the medieval legend of the Cid (Arabic for "Lord") who united warring factions and saved 11th-century Spain from invasion, producer Samuel Bronston and director Anthony Mann insisted every set had to be created from scratch, every costume specially made for this movie alone; they also shot entirely on location in La Mancha and along the Medi...
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Kenneth Branagh,
Julie Christie,
Billy Crystal,
Gerard Depardieu,
Charlton Heston
Director:
Kenneth Branagh
It's the greatest work of literature, but nobody had ever filmed Hamlet uncut--until Kenneth Branagh went about the task for his lavish 1996 production. The result is a sumptuous, star-studded version that scores a palpable hit on its avowed goal: to make the text as clear and urgent as possible. Branagh himself plays the melancholy son of the Danish court, caught in a famous muddle about whether to seek revenge against his royal father's presumed slayer... the man who now sits on the throne and shares the bed of Hamlet's mother. (Or, as the song "That's Entertainment" summarizes the plot: "A ghost and a prince meet / And everyone winds up mincemeat.") As a directo...
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Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Charlton Heston,
Yul Brynner,
Anne Baxter,
Edward G. Robinson,
Yvonne De Carlo
Director:
Cecil B. DeMille
Legendary silent film director Cecil B. DeMille didn't much alter the way he made movies after sound came in, and this 1956 biblical drama is proof of that. While graced with such 1950s niceties as VistaVision and Technicolor, The Ten Commandments (DeMille had already filmed an earlier version in 1923) has an anachronistic, impassioned style that finds lead actors Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner expressively posing while hundreds of extras writhe either in the presence of God's power or from orgiastic heat. DeMille, as always, plays both sides of the fence as far as sin goes, surrounding Heston's Moses with worshipful music and heavenly special effects while also m...
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