Charlton Heston Memorial Promo

Big Country, The - (Original Trailer)

Feuding families vie for water rights in the old West in William Wyler's epic drama, The Big Country, starring Gregory Peck. Charlton Heston, Burl Ives and Jean Simmons (Telluride Film Festival honoree 2008).

Touch of Evil - (1998 Re-issue Trailer)

An Interpol agent risks his wife's life to investigate a crooked sheriff in Touch of Evil (1958), directed by Orson Welles.

Ben-Hur (1959) - (Re-issue Trailer)

While seeking revenge, a rebellious Israelite prince (Charlton Heston) crosses paths with Jesus Christ in Ben-Hur (1959).

Greatest Show On Earth, The - (Original Trailer)

Cecil B. DeMille won his one Academy Award® for Best Picture for the circus drama The Greatest Show On Earth (1952).

Major Dundee - (Original Trailer)

A Union officer (Charlton Heston) leads Confederate prisoners against Apaches in Mexico in Sam Peckinpah's Major Dundee (1965).

Touch Of Evil (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Open, This Ticking Noise

With the prologue included for the 1998 restoration, the famous opening tracking shot from director Orson Welles, from Touch Of Evil, 1958, introducing Mexican cop Vargas (Charlton Heston) and wife Susan (Janet Leigh).

Major Dundee (The Extended Version Trailer)

The trailer for the 2005 extended version of Sam Peckinpah's troubled movie Major Dundee (1965).

Ben-Hur (1959) -- (Movie Clip) New Governor

Tirzah (Cathy O’Donnell) knocks loose a roof tile as the governor enters Jerusalem, causing Messala (Stephen Boyd) to arrest her, Judah (Charlton Heston) and Miriam (Martha Scott) in Ben-Hur, 1959.

Big Country, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Know As I'd Wear That Hat

After credits blazing across the prairie, Gregory Peck as Jim McKay of Maryland arrives in San Rafael, greeted by terse-friendly ranch foreman Charlton Heston, Chuck Connors leading local ruffians, Carroll Baker the awaiting bride-to-be, opening William Wyler’s The Big Country, 1958.

Major Dundee (1965) -- (Movie Clip) Open, I'm A Long Way From Gettysburg

Intense tones of racial hatred, subject matter that would have spoken to director and co-writer Sam Peckinpah, narration by Marvin Miller, and an introduction to Charlton Heston, the title character, and James Coburn as his scout, opening the generally-panned Major Dundee, 1965, also starring Richard Harris.

Ben-Hur (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Your Eyes Are Full Of Hate, Forty-One

We've just met Commander Quintus Arrius (Jack Hawkins) inspecting his fleet and taking note of spirited galley-slave "forty-one," (a.k.a. Judah, Charlton Heston) in Ben-Hur, 1959.

Ben-Hur (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Anno Domini

Narration by Finlay Currie is followed by the arrival of Joseph and Mary in Bethlehem, the rising of a star, the approach of three kings, all this before the opening credits in William Wyler's Ben-Hur, 1959.

Big Country, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) You're A Bigger Fool

McKay (Gregory Peck) and Leech (Charlton Heston) have agreed to a private pre-dawn showdown shot at remarkable distance by cinematographer Frank Planer in director William Wyler's The Big Country, 1958.

Ben-Hur (1959) -- (Movie Clip) No Water For Him!

Judah (Charlton Heston) is being made an example for fellow slaves being driven through Judea when a long-haired carpenter (Claude Heater) offers water in a key scene from William Wyler’s Ben-Hur 1959.

Touch Of Evil (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Fun Is Only Beginning

Crooked U.S. Lawmen (Ray Collins, Harry Shannon, Mort Mills) visiting Mexican cop Vargas (Charlton Heston), with his famous sprint upstairs, then shifting to his wife Susan (Janet Leigh) at the motel, Mercedes McCambridge leading her tormenters, in Orson Welles' Touch Of Evil, 1958.

Major Dundee (1965) -- (Movie Clip) The Major Ain't No Lawyer

Now in Mexico, chasing the Apache and short on supplies, Charlton Heston (title character) with Graham (Jim Hutton) on artillery and scout Sam (James Coburn), enters a village loosely occupied by French imperial troops, where Senta Berger (as Teresa) makes her first appearance, and Tyreen (Richard Harris), head of the consrcripted Confederate troops, takes a different approach, in Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, 1965.

Big Country, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Old Thunder

McKay (Gregory Peck) enlists Ramon (Alfonso Bedoya) in his attempt to ride Old Thunder -- the Terrill family's notorious stallion -- in private, in William Wyler's The Big Country, 1958.

Ben-Hur (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Down Eros Up Mars!

Judah (Charlton Heston) greets boyhood friend Messala (Steven Boyd), returned as a Roman tribune to Judea in their first scene together in William Wyler’s Ben-Hur, 1959.

Ben-Hur (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Who Does Not Agree?

Messala (Stephen Boyd) demands that Judah (Charlton Heston) give him the names of Judeans who don’t wish to submit to Roman rule in William Wyler’s Ben-Hur, 1959.

Big Country, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) 30 Years Overdue

Hostile neighbor Rufus Hannassey (Burl Ives) intrudes on the Terrill wedding announcement party, confronting the major (Charles Bickford), aide Leech (Charlton Heston) and groom McKay (Gregory Peck) standing by, in William Wyler's The Big Country, 1958.

Big Country, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Welcome Aboard, Skipper

Representing the ranching family he's marrying into, Maryland sea captain Jim McKay (Gregory Peck) pays a first visit to friendly but stubborn neighbor and schoolteacher Julie Maragon (Jean Simmons), who won't sell her land, in William Wyler's The Big Country, 1958.

Major Dundee (1965) -- (Movie Clip) It Was A Duel Of Honor

Union Major Dundee (Charlton Heston) and the Irish-born Confederate Tyreen (Richard Harris) re-open old wounds and inflict new ones in this early scene from director Sam Peckinpah's Major Dundee, 1965.

Ben-Hur (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Hail, Arrius!

Big reception in Rome for the victorious Arrius (Jack Hawkins) and his sidekick (Charlton Heston) who draws the attention of the Emperor Tiberius (George Relph) in William Wyler’s Ben-Hur, 1959.

Touch Of Evil (1958) -- (Movie Clip) So Old It's New

After the bombing, border sheriff Hank Quinlan (star and director Orson Welles) in a Mexican night club, a hello from Zsa-Zsa Gabor, then the memorable introduction of Marlene Dietrich (as "Tana") in Touch Of Evil, 1958.

Big Country, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) You Can't Have It Both Ways

Chuck Connors is Buck Hannassey, number one son at a local ranch who’s just finished hassling the star (Gregory Peck), an east coast fella who’s just been greeted by his fianceè, whose dad owns the rival ranch, and her friend Julie (Jean Simmons), the schoolteacher, with whom he now misbehaves, early in William Wyler’s The Big Country, 1958.