 Contemporary accounts reported that in a scene in an arena where  lions were eating "Christians" (actually dummies stuffed with raw  meat to entice the lions to eat them), one of the lions suddenly  turned and pounced into a crowd of nearby extras. It grabbed one man  and dragged him back to where the other lions were feasting on the  "bodies". By the time the lions trainer grabbed a rifle and shot  the animal, it had already killed and began to eat the unlucky  extra. Although the incident was caught on film, there was a  question as to whether it was actually used in the movie itself; the  producers said it wasnt, some of the actors who later saw the  completed film said it was. Since no copy of it is known to exist at  present, there is no way to know.