Androcles and the Lion

Dec 1, 1952

1h 38m

★ 5.8

SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures

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Cast

Captain

Victor Mature

Lavinina

Jean Simmons

Androcles

Alan Young

Ferrovius

Robert Newton

Caesar

Maurice Evans

Megaera

Elsa Lanchester

Lentulus

Reginald Gardiner

Menagerie Keeper

Gene Lockhart

Editor of Gladiators

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Noel Willman

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John Hoyt

Centurion

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