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SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it! - Androcles and the Lion
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Title: Androcles and the Lion

Release Date: 1 Dec 1952

Runtime: 1h 38m

Genre: Comedy

Director: RKO Radio Pictures

Production Companies: RKO Radio Pictures

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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 5.8 (15 votes)

Cast

  • Captain: Victor Mature
  • Lavinina: Jean Simmons
  • Androcles: Alan Young
  • Ferrovius: Robert Newton
  • Caesar: Maurice Evans
  • Megaera: Elsa Lanchester
  • Lentulus: Reginald Gardiner
  • Menagerie Keeper: Gene Lockhart
  • Editor of Gladiators: Alan Mowbray
  • Spintho: Noel Willman
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