Like the Heston movie, the latest adaptation of the Lew Wallace novel, out August 19, hinges on a thrilling chariot race in which Ben-Hur (played in the latest film by Jack Huston) battles the ...

12. Some 10,000 extras appeared in "Ben-Hur," including 1,500 on any day that the chariot sequence needed a crowd in the stadium grandstands. For the race, 78 horses were imported from Yugoslavia ...