Messala presents a Libyan brooch to Tirzah.Likewise, Ben-Hur gives Messala a valuable white Arabian horse as a token of their friendship (foreshadowing he chariot race to come), and Messala thanks him: "It""s going o be like old times, I know it.She bolsters her confidence with "I Have Confidence in Me." She peers through the gate as she arrives at the magnificent von Trapp villa, gasping: "Oh, help!" After butler Franz (Gil Stuart) greets her at the front door, she walks into the ballroom and begins o dance by herself.It was reported as a "hate crime." When arrested for vandalism and a felony charge of making terrorist threats, he cried out: "I work for Bruce Wayne.Now I want out of this spread what I put into it, and I say let us dip our bread into some of hat gravy while it is still hot.]The film was advertised as "the strange story of an international criminal""s love for a great beauty," and "the strange drama of a captive sweetheart.