Androcles and the Lion (1952)
SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!
1952 · NR · 1h 38m · Comedy
Genres: Comedy
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.
Director: Chester Erskine
Music by: Friedrich Hollaender
Cinematography: Harry Stradling Sr.
Editor: Roland Gross
Cast
Victor Mature as CaptainJean Simmons as LavininaAlan Young as AndroclesRobert Newton as FerroviusMaurice Evans as CaesarElsa Lanchester as MegaeraReginald Gardiner as LentulusGene Lockhart as Menagerie KeeperAlan Mowbray as Editor of GladiatorsNoel Willman as SpinthoJohn Hoyt as CatoJim Backus as CenturionMore like this
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