National Screen and Sound Archive in Canberra, Australia.
As his Hollywood journey continued, Fred worked on several significant films such as ‘The Mask of Zorro’ (1920) and ‘The Three Musketeers’ (1921) both starring Douglas Fairbanks. He also directed, what many feel is the greatest silent screen epic of all time, ‘Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ’ in 1925. This motion picture, which had a running time of one hundred forty-three minutes and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was hailed as one of the most expensive films of its time. The movie is about the inspiring and fascinating life of Ben-Hur and his deceiving Roman Centurion friend, Messala. Ben-Hur was portrayed by Ramon Novarro with Francis X. Bushman as Messala.
Fred Niblo also had the good fortune to team up with two more giants of film industry, John Gilbert and Renée Adorée, in the 1930’s