1952  ·  United Kingdom  ·  Fiction

Androcles and the Lion

STATUS: Released

Androcles and the Lion

  • 1952
  • United Kingdom
  • Fiction
  • English
  • 98 mins
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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. And Pascal’s final Shaw production plays it broadly, casting comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. He’s ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.

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Director
Chester Erskine
Writer
Chester Erskine, Ken Englund, George Bernard Shaw
Producer
Gabriel Pascal

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