Ben Hur (1959), it's about Romans, Jesus etc, came out when I was in grade school, and all anyone could talk about was the chariot race scene. Most definitely the inspiration for the Menace race. I don't recall any comment in the media, when it came out or since, about this. Well, I had an aunt with a big-time lech for Charlton Heston, and that's all she could talk about the movie. I suspect she had her first orgasm in a movie theatre when she saw the suddenly white-haired Heston in The Ten Commandments.
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