Ben-Hur News

Few filmmakers have more great "lost" movies than Sam Peckinpah, whose every movie it seems was released in some form other than the one he originally intended.

Judge David Johnson runs local chariot races for disadvantaged youth every other weekend at the park.

Everybody loves a good heist film: the meticulous planning, the exotic locales, the attractively criminal minds at work, the fatal, unseeable complication that will trip them all up or force them to improvise an even smarter solution.

But he played a significant role in American history, both in Civil War times and later, and - like the title character of his famous novel - suffered mightily for an incident without malice.