Movie·1952·1h 38m
Androcles and the Lion
SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!
Directed By
Chester Erskine
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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The Story
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.
Producer
Gabriel Pascal
Cinematography
Harry Stradling Sr.
Music
Friedrich Hollaender
Editor
Roland Gross
Themes
Production House
Audience Score
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// cast
Cast
Victor Mature
Captain
Jean Simmons
Lavinina
Alan Young
Androcles
Robert Newton
Ferrovius
Maurice Evans
Caesar
Elsa Lanchester
Megaera
Reginald Gardiner
Lentulus
Gene Lockhart
Menagerie Keeper
Alan Mowbray
Editor of Gladiators
Noel Willman
Spintho
John Hoyt
Cato
Jim Backus
Centurion
Lowell Gilmore
Metellus
Woody Strode
The Lion
Strother Martin
Soldier (uncredited)
Millard Sherwood
Christian (uncredited)
// crew
Crew
Chester Erskine
Director
Gabriel Pascal
Producer
Roland Gross
Editor
Harry Stradling Sr.
Director of Photography
Friedrich Hollaender
Original Music Composer
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