The Bible in film Christ with a climactic resurrection scene in color. "King of Kings" was re-released in 1931 with a synchronized musical score. MGM's 1925 silent-era "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ", starring Ramon Novarro was the most expensive film of its time. It included two spectacular scenes: the sea galley battle with pirates and the famous chariot-race. Another "swords and sandals" epic of the 1920s was "Noah's Ark" which combined title cards with spoken dialogue. The major studios produced fewer epics during the 1940s due in part to wartime scarcity of resources. After the war, some of Hollywood's highest grossing films were
The Burmese Harp (1956 film) audience of 3.87 million people, then the second largest Japanese box office hit. The Burmese Harp (1956 film) The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of 1956. In 1985, Ichikawa remade "The Burmese Harp" in color with a new cast, and the remake was a major box office success, becoming the number one Japanese film on the domestic market in 1985 and the second largest Japanese box office hit up to that time. Private Mizushima, a Japanese soldier, becomes the harp (or "saung") player of Captain Inouye's group, composed of soldiers who fight and