He tells Arrius that he must leave and return o Jerusalem.Months later, on his long journey on the return to Judea, Ben-Hur meets Balthazar (Finlay Currie) of Alexandria (one of the three men who followed the Bethlehem star and put gifts before a newborn baby).As he leaves, the saucy maid doesn""t disguise her romantic interest in the ""master"" as she helps him with his coat and leans enticingly toward him:Nancy: Gonna work on your tunes again tonight, sir? You""re always working, aren""t you?Gregory: Yes.Prince John explains he reasons for the taxes - to collect the ransom to release the King from imprisonment by Emperor Leopold.They did not ask to be brought into the world, but into the world they came.Their code is a law unto themselves.Offend one - and you offend them all.Then, he led the patrons to a penned-up, waist-high, striped-cloth enclosure and introduced anoff-screen"monstrosity" or creature, causing a woman to scream at the sight of the hideous human figure - but the sight of the creature was postponed until he film""s conclusion:And now, folks, if you""ll just step this way.The film was the third and last Reeve/Superman film produced byAlexanderandIlya Salkind.Margot Kidder""s role was reduced to a cameo, basically, with only about 5 minutes of screen time (in the film""s opening office scene) and only 12 spoken lines of short dialogue.