Androcles and the Lion

Androcles and the Lion (1952)

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

Comedy

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.

star 5.8
  • Release Date: 1952-12-01
  • Runtime: 1h 38min
  • Director: Chester Erskine

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    • 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)

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