Charlton Heston mused years later that, if "Ben-Hur" director William Wyler and El Cid (1961) director Anthony Mann had exchanged directing assignments, the former film would not have been much less than it ended up being, whereas the latter might have been the greatest epic film ever made. Heston was half-right: Wyler might have made "El Cid" into an epic, even better than "Ben-Hur", but Mann was not Wyler's equal and could not have brought to this film the same level of detail to the screenwriting process, visionary direction, and actors' performances that Wyler did.
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