10 Debunked Movie Myths You Totally Believe

One of the most ambitious historical epics ever made, Ben-Hur starred Charlton Heston and required a massive amount of stunt work to be successfully pulled off.

With stunt work comes an awful lot of danger (look no further than Dylan O'Brien's accident on the set of Maze Runner: The Death Cure or Joi Harris' tragic death during filming for Deadpool 2), and it forms the basis of this fairly grim and overblown movie myth.

According to one particularly morbid urban legend, one of the stuntmen involved in Ben-Hur's iconic chariot race scene was killed and the moment of his death was actually left in the finished film despite the wishes of his widow.

As the true story goes, no stuntmen were actually killed on set, and there's certainly no evidence of a real-life death shown on screen.

The only proof of a death during the film's making came with the sudden heart attack of one of the film's producers. Other than that, no stuntmen or animals were harmed in the making of the movie.