Ben Hur - (never liked Planet Of The Apes-as SF, found it as implausible as Children Of Men). Anyway, the reason I love watching it is the way that the deep friendship between Messala and Hur turned bad. Kudos to the late Stephen Boyd as well. I read that Gore Vidal did the writing for the film. Those scenes where they interact-in friendship-and-hostility("the race-it goes on")... Over the years, it had me involved-Heston a wooden actor? No way here.
I've seen The Ten Commandments a lot, mostly as a kid. I think one of the local stations played it every Easter or something like that.
The Ten Commandments has always mesmerized me - if I turn it on I can't stop watching it. I haven't watched these nearly as much but I gotta mention some peculiar favorites so here goes: El Cid The Agony And The Ecstasy Antony And Cleopatra
I've watched films with Charlton Heston in them but I've never watched a film because Charlton Heston was in them. When I was a young it was "Planet of the Apes", it has been overtaken by "Touch of Evil".
My second most watched Heston film is probably 'Will Penny', unless you can count his glorified cameo in 'Beneath the Planet of the Apes' as a Heston film, then 'Beneath' is my second most watched Heston film.
Seen Will Penny when it came out( yeah .. I’m. Old lol) Like cameo myself. Chuck ? His last good film imo was Mountain Men.
Evil ? Some folk commented that he didn’t look Mexican enough ( what ever that means) Dennis Weaver was a hoot.
I've never seen the movie in question, but I can say I do *not* think Charlton Heston would make a convincing Hispanic man. And for the record, Chuck Connors didn't make a convincing Native American in that 'Geronimo' movie he starred in either... But that's for another thread.
I picked up a copy of 'Mountain Men' while out thrifting... I haven't watched it yet, but it does look like it'll be good.
