Victor Mature and the toy bow
I could never take Victor Mature vary seriously as an actor, he always seemed just a beefed up stand-in who had lines to say while action went on around him. The killing the lion scenes were somewhere near the bottom of his very large barrel of bad work. He snarls, grimaces, in general his full range of expression from A to B and then pulls back the cord of the wimpiest bow ever seen in the movies and the lion conveniently falls dead.
With all the expensive chariots et als, one thinks that props could have found a grown-up size bow and arrow and then tell Victor not to draw back the cord by holding it with pinched fingers.
Ugh