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Androcles and the Lion (1952)

Androcles and the Lion (1952)

Comedy

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

Release Date: 1952, December 1
Directors: Chester Erskine
Countries: United States of America
Production: RKO Radio Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures
Cast: Woody Strode, Strother Martin, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Reginald Gardiner, John Hoyt, Maurice Evans, Elsa Lanchester, Alan Young, Alan Mowbray, Noel Willman, Robert Newton

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

lion based on play or musical arena ancient rome 2nd century colosseum