Ben Hur (1907 film)

Ben Hur is a 15minutelong 1907 silent film, the first film version of Lew Wallaces novel BenHur A Tale of the Christ, one of the bestselling books at that time.

Actor William S. Hart, soon to be a famous silent film cowboy, reprises his role as Messala from the 1899 Broadway premiere and 1900 season Broadway play. Herman Rottger is BenHur, where as in the 1900 play William Farnum, another soon to be famous silent cowboy, played Ben Hur against Harts Messala.

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