Androcles and the Lion
SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!
1952 1 hour 38 minutesSPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!
1952 1 hour 38 minutes
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.
1st December 1952
73 years ago
1 hour 38 minutes
Finishes at 9:59pm
6/10
43%
59%
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