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Androcles and the Lion

Androcles and the Lion

# SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!
Comedy
📜 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.
🌏 Languages Available: English
📆 Date Released: 1952-12-01
⌚ Running Time: 98 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 5.8

Beloved Cast

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

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