Wyler had been an ""extras"" director on the set of DeMille""s original film in the silent era.MGM""sBen-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), featuring a cast of 125,000, cost about $4 million to make after shooting began on location in Italy, in 1923, and starred silent screen idols Ramon Novarro and Francis X.A Shiva lingam (possibly one of the five lost Sankara stones "with magical properties") had been stolen from their shrine, and the village had been under a curse of famine and misery ever since.With one look at Quinlan, Vargas treats him warily: "I wonder, what makes you so very sure it was dynamite?" Menzies suggests that Hank""s hunches and "intuition" come from twinges in his game leg.Newly-weds Troi and Riker were in bed together beginning o make love, when from her POV, Riker was suddenly replaced by Shinzon and then Shinzon""s Viceroy for a moment of telepathic rape or violation (Shinzon boasted: "He can never know you as I can.