Androcles and the Lion

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

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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.

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Creators

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Chester Erskine

director

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Ken Englund

writer

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Chester Erskine

writer

George Bernard Shaw

writer

Cast

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Victor Mature actor Jean Simmons actor Alan Young actor Robert Newton actor

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Maurice Evans actor Elsa Lanchester actor Reginald Gardiner actor Gene Lockhart actor Alan Mowbray actor

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Noel Willman actor John Hoyt actor Jim Backus actor

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Lowell Gilmore actor Woody Strode actor Strother Martin actor

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Millard Sherwood actor