Charlton Heston

By far the most notable Super Bowl commercial was Charlton Heston reassuring America that it’s only half time and there’s still everything to play for. As his gravelly voice touted the resurgence of Detroit, I thought at first it would … Continue reading →  

Based on Lew Wallace's best-selling novel and adapted by Karl Tunber, "Ben-Hur" stars Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Cathy O'Donnell and Sam Jaffe. Best Director Oscar®-winner, William Wyler ...  

Next month, Warner Home Entertainment will reissue Ben-Hur on a 50th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray edition. Director William Wyler's Biblical epic stars Charlton Heston (Planet of the Apes) as the title character, a Jewish nobleman whose rivalry with boyhood ...  

Charlton Heston delivered perhaps his best performance in “Ben-Hur.” He competed for the Oscar with James Stewart for “Anatomy of a Murder”; Laurence Harvey for “Room at the Top”; Jack Lemmon for “Some Like It Hot”; and Paul Muni ...  

Our family's tradition of the last several years is to watch a disaster movie on New Year's Eve. Whether it's an aviation calamity or a natural disaster, more often than not either Dana Andrews or Charlton Heston is involved!Tonight it was Heston's turn, starring in the 1974 Irwin Allen flick EARTHQUAKE. Other than Heston, this film is really, really bad; at times the sheer awfulness provides amusement, while at other times it's yawn...