Judah Ben-Hur struggles with five men during the course of the film: he fights two Roman guards while trying to escape from prison; chokes a Roman galley officer after the ship is rammed; spears a Macedonian pirate an instant before the pirate can kill Roman admiral Quintus Arrius; and sets fire to the beard of another pirate blocking his path to rescue Arrius, who'd been knocked into the sea in full armor, under whose weight he surely would have drowned without Ben-Hur's intervention. Aside from the pirate skewered by Ben-Hur's spear (a skill set up near the beginning of the film in the scene in which the brief renewal of Ben-Hur and Messala's friendship is symbolized by their spear-throwing contest in Jerusalem's Fortress of Antonia), it's difficult to ascertain whether the others Ben-Hur attacks suffered mortal injuries or not.

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