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Androcles and the Lion (1952)

Movie"SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!"
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58
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NR 1 hr 38 minDec 1st, 1952Comedy
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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. 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.
StarringVictor MatureJean SimmonsAlan Young
DirectorChester Erskine

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:December 1st, 1952
Original Language:English
Production Companies:RKO Radio Pictures
Movie Tags:
based on play or musicallionancient romearenacolosseum2nd century