 Stuntman Jack Montgomery (I) (qv), who played a Christian  cavalryman in the film, recalled in an interview the tension that  existed between director Cecil B. DeMille (qv) and the dozens of  stuntmen hired to do the battle scenes. The stuntmen resented what  they saw as DeMilles cavalier attitude about safety, especially as  several stuntmen had been injured, and several horses had been  killed, because of what the stuntmen perceived as DeMilles  indifference. At one point DeMille was standing on the parapets of  the castle, yelling through his megaphone at the "combatants"  gathered below. One of them, who had been hired for his expertise at  archery, finally tired of DeMilles screaming at them, notched an  arrow into his bow and fired it at DeMilles megaphone, the arrow  embedding itself into the megaphone just inches from DeMilles head.  DeMille quickly left the set and didnt come back for the rest of  the day. For the rest of the picture, he never yelled at the  stuntmen again.