Androcles and the Lion (1952)

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

Run Time: 1h38m | Release: 01 Dec 1952

Genres: Comedy |

Production Countries: United States of America

5.8 / 1015 Vote Count

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.