Androcles and the Lion
SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!
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 -
Jean Simmons Lavinina -
Alan Young Androcles -
Robert Newton Ferrovius -
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
Make it a double feature
3h 10m together
Androcles and the Lion
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