Film hero shunning Ben catches steamship with a soldier (6)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

{Ben} HUR (film hero) [shunning Ben] contains [catches} SS (steamship) + A. Judah Ben Hur was in a novel by Lew Wallace published in 1880, first filmed in 1907 and 5 or 6 times since then.