El Cid Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren Weinstein Co. "El Cid" has all the ingredients for a grand, glorious epic. The 1961 film, which makes its DVD debut Tuesday, has sword fights, battle scenes, ...

Resorting to unexplained changes of heart for three different characters seems absurdly reckless. Nevertheless, “El Cid” contrives to rise pseudo-majestically above its weaknesses through the ...

LOS ANGELES — Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot- racing “Ben-Hur” and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures before becoming a polarizing ...

LOS ANGELES ” Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing “Ben-Hur” and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the ’50s and ’60s, ...

LOS ANGELES — Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing “Ben-Hur” and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the ’50s and ’60s, ...

Legendary actor Charlton Heston passed away this Saturday evening at his home in Beverly Hills with his wife Lydia at his side. Heston was 84 years old. The cause of death was not released, although ...

One of the last great epics not yet released on DVD, Anthony Mann's "El Cid," finally will be issued on disc Jan. 29 by Genius Products and the Weinstein Co. By Thomas K. Arnold, The Associated Press ...

LOS ANGELES | Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, ...

LOS ANGELES—Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing “Ben-Hur” and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the ’50s and ’60s, ...

Charlton Heston, whose chiseled-granite looks and commanding manner allowed him to portray some of history’s most extraordinary men from Moses and Michelangelo to John the Baptist and El Cid, has died ...