The famous 1959 film, Ben-Hur, won 11 Oscars the year it was released and grossed the second highest box office total for any film ever made at the time. It was a cultural phenomenon the likes of which very few movies, then or now, could ever hope to achieve. It is still remembered today, though opinions on it after sixty years are of course mixed. It is something of a time-capsule of a film, a view to a very different Hollywood that made movies in very different ways with very different means of profit-making and different audiences in mind. Ben-Hur was also a remake of a 1925 film titled: Ben-Hur:…