Androcles and the Lion
SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!
1952 · 98 min · ★ 5.9 · Comedy
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascal’s final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. He’s ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.
Directed by Chester Erskine
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Victor Mature Captain -
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Alan Young Androcles -
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Maurice Evans Caesar -
Elsa Lanchester Megaera -
Reginald Gardiner Lentulus -
Gene Lockhart Menagerie Keeper -
Alan Mowbray Editor of Gladiators -
Noel Willman Spintho -
John Hoyt Cato -
Jim Backus Centurion
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