In 1849 he was admitted to the bar in his native state and seven years later entered the state senate. During the Mexican War he served as a second lieutenant in the lst Indiana but saw only minor action. Born in Indiana, he had worked as a clerk and early displayed a fascination for Mexico which would affect him in later years. With the outbreak of the Civil War Lewis "Lew" Wallace was a lawyer, governor, Union general in the American Civil War, American statesman, and author, best remembered for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.Īlthough he would have much preferred to be remembered as a highly successful military hero, Lew Wallace has been thwarted in this ambition and is best known as an author. From Civil War Biography: Although he would have much preferred to be remembered as a highly successful military hero, Lew Wallace has been thwarted in this ambition and is best known as an author. It's a long movie, but the audience gets so caught up in it that they don't even feel the time go by.Lewis "Lew" Wallace was a lawyer, governor, Union general in the American Civil War, American statesman, and author, best remembered for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Steven Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Martha Scott and Hugh Griffith also shone. He not only became famous with it but made here the most remarkable character of his career. As for the cast's work, it's definitely the movie of Charlton Heston's life. The color is vivid and intense, cinematography is truly imposing and accentuates the epic ambiance. The visual and special effects used in the film were the best there was at the time and even today, more than half a century later, they're able to surprise by the realism. The representation of the Roman legionaries influenced for decades the conception that we have, individually, on how they were and fought. Some sequences are truly anthological, as is the case with the chariot race. Epic in every detail, the film features scenarios and costumes carefully crafted in the style of Imperial Rome. The story is based on a novel by Lew Wallace (which I have read and I have at home) and is so famous that it doesn't allow spoils: the injustice committed against Judah Ben-Hur and his path of revenge, deeply linked to the life and death of Jesus, a latent and ever palpable subplot, even when it does not arise. This is one of those movies, perhaps one of the best movies ever and surely one of the biggest and most epic biblical movies ever made. Some movies are so good that they just haven't age.
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