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In Reply to: "Ben Hur" posted by rico on August 22, 2005 at 13:30:26:
re stunts:I'd heard that the stuntman's widow agreed to leave the slightly clipped scene in the film.
Apparently, the shot is the one where a soldier, who's standing against the interior wall, leaps back against the wall to avoid a chariot but too hard and the momentum sends him back out under the chariot.It's not verified but I believe this is the version.
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The scene purportedly remained in the film.The other nominee for dead stunt man was the charioteer who fell and tried to roll out of the track. There was a chariot out of place and his neck was broken. Or so the story goes.
The rumour was so rife in the day it has become an "urban legend". I have never heard anyone who should really know confirm it, but then I did not go nuts chasing it down.
In the DVD commentary Heston flatly states that no one was killed during the filming of the chariot race. He also declares as untrue that a red Faerrari is visible in one shot and that he was wearing a wrist watch.
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