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Androcles and the Lion
SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!
19521h 38m5.9out of 1016 votes
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.
Directed by 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
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