Plot SynopsisThe film begins with a MAN WANTED sign at Twin Oaks, a California roadside diner/luncheonette and gas-station, and voice-over narration:It was on a side road outside of Los Angeles.a bigoted Southern white (Caucasian) convict imprisoned for armed robbery; a skilled auto transmission worker, from a family with a Bible-thumping father; a dreamer who pictured himself wealthy and popular on the outside - known in slang as "Charlie Potatoes" (as "the man with the money.Ben-Hur asserts that he is not ready to die - the god of his fathers will save him.Arrius offers to take Judah to Rome and train him as a gladiator or charioteer.Ben-Hur believes that his existence has a purpose, that his God will free him to take revenge on his enemy for wrongfully condemning and imprisoning him and his family.Unsatisfied and vengeful, Hans is determined to view the Monster""s remains: "I want to see with my own eyes.As the US Army soldiers attended to her and Luthor impersonated an ambulance driver arriving to transport her away, dim-witted Otis fiddled with the missile""s control panel, resetting the vector headings to numbers written on his arm: the first to 38, the second to 67, and the third to 117.