Ben-Hur (1959)
WHAT WENT WRONG
Sad Boom Media
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2025
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
How did a studio on the brink, a Jewish director, and a second-rate star turn a pulpy, near-blasphemous mass market Christian book into a blockbuster for the ages? Join Chris and Lizzie as they travel back in time to a tinsel town in painful transition to learn why MGM bet it all on a remake of the costliest film of the silent era, examine Gore Vidal's controversial contributions to the script, and test Mussolini's assertion that film is the ultimate weapon.
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| 0:49.7 | Hello, what went wrong listeners. Before we dive into today's coverage of Ben Hur, we have two quick announcements. |
| 0:56.7 | First, what went wrong is coming to you live. |
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| 1:38.4 | We would love to see you there. We would love to meet you. We'll do a Q&A on top of coverage of a big time flopper. |
| 1:46.1 | All right. Second announcement. In today's episode, we will briefly be discussing, unfortunately, |
| 1:52.6 | some animal cruelty that occurred on set. I reiterate, it is brief. But of course, if you don't |
| 1:58.0 | want to listen to that, I'd advise you skip this week's episode and we'll catch you next time. All right, without further ado, what went wrong? |
| 2:22.4 | And and action. |
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