The Giant Gladiator Statue at the end of the move is shown cracked in half as it is falling. In the very next seen the chest area is intact as it is falling.
Also it is naked and the sword is barely covering the groin area, I could almost see the gladiator's balls- way explicit for a 1935 movie.
I know, that giant statue of Mars, the Roman god of warfare, collapsing and falling on the gladiators in the arena made my hair stand on end when I was a boy watching this movie when it was first shown on TV around 1955. Despite the technical flaws in Willis O'Brien's superb special visual effects (which you must remember was at that time the state of the art in Hollywood) the visual effects work in this picture is simply fantastic.
And, despite the obvious flaws in the story (compressing nearly 50 years of the First Century from c. 30 A.D. to 79 A.D.) into about 10 to 20 at the most, this film is otherwise a masterpiece. The only technical improvement they could have made on it was to film it in 3-strip Technicolor. Cooper and Selznick had this discussion during production planning, but the budget with Technicolor film would have put this film way over $1 Million, which is what it is reputed to have cost, so they decided to go ahead and shoot it in far cheaper black & white film.
Dejael
I could almost see the gladiator's balls ...... which made you exclaim, "Goodness gracious, great balls of volcanic fire!" share