Androcles and the Lion
1952, Film, 98 min, Adventure, Comedy, Family, English, United States, MoviePedia score 63
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, Nicholas Ray
Cast
- Jean Simmons as Lavinia
- Victor Mature as Captain
- Alan Young as Androcles
- Robert Newton as Ferrovius
- Maurice Evans as Emperor Antoninus (Caesar)
- Elsa Lanchester as Megaera
- Reginald Gardiner as Lentulus
- Gene Lockhart as Menagerie Keeper
- Alan Mowbray as Editor of Gladiators
- Noel Willman as Spintho
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