The Truth (1960 film) box office hit in France, Bardot's biggest ever success at the box office and the third most popular film of the year (after "Ben Hur" and "Le Bossu"). The "Los Angeles Times" called the film "an amazing picture, a tour de force from all concerned. It is at once immoral, amoral and strangely moral." The Truth (1960 film) The Truth () is a 1960 French film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Brigitte Bardot. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Dominique Marceau is a young Frenchwoman on trial for killing her lover, Gilbert.
Ben-Hur (2016 film) the book, the 1925 silent film and the more famous 1959 film of same name. The rights to the latter film were sold to Ted Turner in the 1980s. MGM had just emerged from bankruptcy due to the global success of the twenty-third "James Bond" film, "Skyfall", and "", which both went to gross over $1 billion at the box office worldwide, including above $300 million in the United States and Canada, while Paramount were doing well at the time with the biblical tale "Noah". John Ridley ("12 Years a Slave") was hired to revise the script, with Sean Daniel,