Messala (Stephen Boyd) is the Roman who betrays Ben-Hur. Vidal realized he needed more subtext to their relationship. “Ben-Hur and Messala, one Jewish, one Roman, had known each other in their ...

You know you’ve wondered about it. There’s just something about the reunion between Judah Ben-Hur and his boyhood pal Messala that makes you think they once did more than romp through the ...

Further, Vidal claims that, after consultation with Wyler and Boyd (but not Heston, who would have objected), he wrote one particular scene, where the estranged Ben-Hur and Messala meet again ...

Set in the time of Jesus Christ, the film tells the tale of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish merchant who is falsely accused by Messala, an officer of the Roman Empire. The original, starring Charlton ...

“Ben-Hur” (1959), which celebrated its 65th anniversary this past November, ... Messala, now a Roman tribune of the province, the two come into conflict.

Messala is now an orphan raised in Ben-Hur’s Jerusalem home as an adopted brother — the movie opens with them racing horses in an obvious nod toward their final-act coliseum showdown — but ...

Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston) and Messala (Toby Kebbell) are like brothers until Messala becomes a Roman officer who falsely accuses Judah of betrayal.

This 1959 iteration was so good, and holds up so well, there hardly seems need for another. How could anyone improve on Chuck? The only possible reason for another remake would be to try to do ...

In most versions of “Ben-Hur,” the false resolution is the aftermath of the chariot race, in which Messala lies broken, and Judah is triumphant. The true resolution comes a bit later.

Lew Wallace's 1880 novel "Ben-Hur: A Take of the Christ," one of the 19th century's... 'Ben-Hur' suffers crisis of faith - in that it has very little Chron Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite.