Androcles and the Lion
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Directed by Chester Erskine
SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!
The story
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 & crew
Victor MatureCaptain
Jean SimmonsLavinina
Alan YoungAndrocles
Robert NewtonFerrovius
Maurice EvansCaesar
Elsa LanchesterMegaera
Reginald GardinerLentulus
Gene LockhartMenagerie Keeper
Alan MowbrayEditor of Gladiators
Noel WillmanSpintho
John HoytCato
Jim BackusCenturionExplore the crew
- Director
- Chester Erskine
- Producer
- Gabriel Pascal
- Editor
- Roland Gross
- Director of Photography
- Harry Stradling Sr.
- Original Music Composer
- Friedrich Hollaender