6 distinguished writers , including Christopher Fry worked on the script which ran to 230 pages. Based on the book by General Lew Wallace, who wrote it while he was the governor of New Mexico, it became a play on Broadway with William S. Hart (later to gain fame as a cowboy star) as Messala, and had 2 chariots racing on treadmills. 7 years later the number of chariots increased to 8 and the play ran in one theater for 17 years. It was first filmed in 1907 with the chariot race performed by members of the Brooklyn Fire Department.
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