Androcles and the Lion
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. And Pascal’s final Shaw production plays it broadly, casting 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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Cast
- Victor Mature
- Captain
- Jean Simmons
- Lavinina
- Alan Young
- Androcles
- Robert Newton
- Ferrovius
- Maurice Evans
- Caesar
- Elsa Lanchester
- Megaera
Credits
- Director
- Chester Erskine
- Based on the play by
- George Bernard Shaw
- Producer
- Gabriel Pascal
- Screen adaptation
- Chester Erskine
- Screen adaptation
- Ken Englund
- Cinematography
- Harry Stradling
- Production design
- Harry Horner
- Editing
- Roland Gross
- Music
- Frederick Hollander
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