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Androcles and the Lion

Name: Androcles and the Lion
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1952-12-01
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 5.938

★ 5,9 /10 (16 Votes)

1952 EN 98 min

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.

Stream

Release date

01/12/1952

Votes

Popularity

1.7

SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!

Genres

Comedy

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

98 min

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

Strother Martin

Soldier (uncredited)

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Millard Sherwood

Christian (uncredited)

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I think Charles Erskine has done pretty well with this entertaining adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw comedy. Escaping from his overbearing wife "Magaera" (Elsa Lanchester), "Androcles" (Alan Young) discovers a lion in the wilderness with a thorn in it's paw. Despite being petrified, he removes the offending pain and the lion escapes. Shortly afterwards, he finds himself a prisoner of the Romans under the command of Victor Mature. He is rounding up Christians for the Emperor's grand circus and has already recruited "Lavinia" (Jean Simmons) and will soon add the ferocious "Ferrovius" (Rober…

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