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Androcles and the Lion

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

★ 5.9 TMDB Rating · 16 votes

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.

Director
Chester Erskine
Release date
Dec 1, 1952
Original language
English
Origin
United States

Cast of Androcles and the Lion

  • Portrait of Victor Mature

    Victor Mature

    Captain

  • Portrait of Jean Simmons

    Jean Simmons

    Lavinina

  • Portrait of Alan Young

    Alan Young

    Androcles

  • Portrait of Robert Newton

    Robert Newton

    Ferrovius

  • Portrait of Maurice Evans

    Maurice Evans

    Caesar

  • Portrait of Elsa Lanchester

    Elsa Lanchester

    Megaera

  • Portrait of Reginald Gardiner

    Reginald Gardiner

    Lentulus

  • Portrait of Gene Lockhart

    Gene Lockhart

    Menagerie Keeper

  • Portrait of Alan Mowbray

    Alan Mowbray

    Editor of Gladiators

  • Portrait of Noel Willman

    Noel Willman

    Spintho

  • Portrait of John Hoyt

    John Hoyt

    Cato

  • Portrait of Jim Backus

    Jim Backus

    Centurion

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United States
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Canada
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