Androcles and the Lion backdrop
Androcles and the Lion poster
Trailer
Androcles and the Lion
5.8
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1h 38m
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1952
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Released
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.

Cast
Victor Mature poster
Victor Mature
Captain
Jean Simmons poster
Jean Simmons
Lavinina
Alan Young poster
Alan Young
Androcles
Robert Newton poster
Robert Newton
Ferrovius
Maurice Evans poster
Maurice Evans
Caesar
Elsa Lanchester poster
Elsa Lanchester
Megaera
Reginald Gardiner poster
Reginald Gardiner
Lentulus
Gene Lockhart poster
Gene Lockhart
Menagerie Keeper
Alan Mowbray poster
Alan Mowbray
Editor of Gladiators
Noel Willman poster
Noel Willman
Spintho
John Hoyt poster
John Hoyt
Cato
Jim Backus poster
Jim Backus
Centurion
Lowell Gilmore poster
Lowell Gilmore
Metellus
Woody Strode poster
Woody Strode
The Lion
Strother Martin poster
Strother Martin
Soldier (uncredited)
Millard Sherwood poster
Millard Sherwood
Christian (uncredited)

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