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