"El Cid," the Charlton Heston-Sophia Loren epic, screens as part of Matías Bombal's Wide Screen Roadshow series at the ...

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 ...

Heston was a civil rights leader and political activist as well as an Academy Award winning actor known for many incredible roles including Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur, Moses in The Ten Commandments, and El ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 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 ...