Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)

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Original title	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Swedish release title	Ben-Hur

Director	Fred Niblo J.J. Cohn Charles Brabin
Screenplay	Bess Meredyth Carey Wilson
Producer	J.J. Cohn Charles B. Dillingham Abraham L. Erlanger Louis B. Mayer Samuel Goldwyn Irving Thalberg
Production Manager	Harry E. Edington Dave Friedman
Director of Photography	Karl Struss Percy Hilburn René Guissart Clyde De Vinna
Music	Maurice Baron
Film Editor	Lloyd Nosler Basil Wrangell William Holmes Harry Reynolds Ben Lewis Aubrey Scotto
Assistant Director	Charles Stallings Silas Clegg William Wyler Henry Hathaway
Second Unit Director	Christy Cabanne Alfred Raboch B. Reeves Eason Ferdinand P. Earle
Titles	Katherine Hilliker H.H. Caldwell
Adaptation	June Mathis
Camera Operator	John W. Boyle Silvano Balboni George Meehan E. Burton Steene

Ramon Novarro	Ben-Hur
Francis X. Bushman	Messala
May McAvoy	Esther
Betty Bronson	Mary
Claire McDowell	prinsessan av Hur
Kathleen Key	Tirzah
Carmel Myers	Iras
Nigel de Brulier	Simonides
Mitchell Lewis	shejk Ilderim
Leo White	Sanballat
Frank Currier	Quintus Arrius
Charles M. Belcher (as Charles Belcher)	Balthazar
Dale Fuller	Amrah
Winter Hall	Joseph
Reginald Barker
Clarence Brown
Marion Davies
Douglas Fairbanks
George Fitzmaurice
Sidney A. Franklin (as Sidney Franklin)
Rosita Garcia
John Gilbert
Lillian Gish
Harry Gordon	Centurion
Sid Grauman
Rupert Julian
Henry King
Harold Lloyd
Myrna Loy
Colleen Moore
Claude Payton
Mary Pickford
Tom Tyler

Production Company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. controlled by Loew's Inc.

Censorship number	55454
Date	1937-03
Classification	Suitable for all audiences
Original length	3320 meters

Censorship number	47263
Date	1931-12
Classification	Allowed from age 15
Original length	3065 meters
Censored length	2997 meters
Notes	(ljudversion)

Censorship number	40718
Date	1928-04
Classification	Suitable for all audiences
Original length	2816 meters
Censored length	2544 meters

Censorship number	39325
Date	1927-09
Classification	Allowed from age 15
Original length	1519 meters
Censored length	1460 meters
Notes	(del 1)

Censorship number	39349
Date	1927-09
Classification	Allowed from age 15
Original length	1994 meters
Censored length	1993 meters
Notes	(del 2)

Censorship number	37393
Date	1926-08
Classification	Allowed from age 15
Original length	3315 meters
Censored length	3255 meters

Aspect ratio	1.33:1
Sound type	Silent
Colour type	Colour
Colour system	2-strip Technicolor
Carrier type	35 mm
Frames per second	22
Length in metres	3564 meter
Length in minutes	142 min
Reels	12 reels

Original title	Ben-Hur. A Tale of the Christ (Novel)
Author	General Lew Wallace

MGM Studios	Los Angeles	USA
Anzio, Rom	Lazio	Italy
Livorno	Toscana	Italy
Rom	Lazio	Italy

First showing	1925-12-30	George M. Cohan Theater	New York, New York	USA
Release in Sweden	1926-12-26	Palladium	Stockholm	Sweden	129 min
Other showing	1931-12-26	Piccadilly	Stockholm	Sweden	109 min

Some of the Best : Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949)		Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Precious Images (1986)		Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)

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Element type	Print
Item base	Nitrate
Carrier type	35 mm
Length	285

Size	Smaller than 40 x 75 cm
Quantity	2

Size	Smaller than 40 x 75 cm
Quantity	2

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	1

Script type	Cutting continuity
Language	English

Black and white print	SET
Colour prints	8
Behind the scenes prints	1
Album	No

Type	Program/Reklamtryck