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Androcles and the Lion
1952, Dec 01
1h 38m
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
Jean Simmons
Lavinina
Noel Willman
Spintho
Robert Newton
Ferrovius
Lowell Gilmore
Metellus
Elsa Lanchester
Megaera
Victor Mature
Captain
John Hoyt
Cato
Strother Martin
Soldier (uncredited)
Woody Strode
The Lion
Alan Young
Androcles
Reginald Gardiner
Lentulus
Gene Lockhart
Menagerie Keeper
Alan Mowbray
Editor of Gladiators
Jim Backus
Centurion
Maurice Evans
Caesar
Millard Sherwood
Christian (uncredited)
Stubby Kruger
Wayne Burson
Alex Sharp
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