Androcles and the Lion
SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!
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- 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.
Keywords
- lion
- arena
- ancient rome
- 2nd century
- based on play or musical
- colosseum
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 1, 1952
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Cast
- John Hoyt,Victor Mature,Alan Young,Noel Willman,Lowell Gilmore,Millard Sherwood,Robert Newton,Maurice Evans,Jean Simmons,Woody Strodeand 6 more
- Director
- Chester Erskine
- Producer
- Gabriel Pascal
- Cinematography
- Harry Stradling Sr.
- Music
- Friedrich Hollaender
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0044355