Androcles and the Lion
SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!
1952-12-01 | 98 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Victor MatureCaptain
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Jean SimmonsLavinina
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Alan YoungAndrocles
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Robert NewtonFerrovius
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Maurice EvansCaesar
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Elsa LanchesterMegaera
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Reginald GardinerLentulus
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Gene LockhartMenagerie Keeper
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Alan MowbrayEditor of Gladiators
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Noel WillmanSpintho
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John HoytCato
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Jim BackusCenturion
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Lowell GilmoreMetellus
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Woody StrodeThe Lion
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Strother MartinSoldier (uncredited)
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