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Androcles and the Lion (1952)
Directed by Chester Erskine
Overview
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.
Rated NR | Length 98 minutes
Actors
Victor Mature | Jean Simmons | Alan Young | Robert Newton | Maurice Evans | Elsa Lanchester | Reginald Gardiner | Gene Lockhart | Alan Mowbray | Noel Willman | John Hoyt | Jim Backus | Lowell Gilmore | Woody Strode | Strother Martin | Millard Sherwood