Androcles and the Lion

Name: Androcles and the Lion
Director: Chester Erskine
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1952-12-01
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Victor Mature, Jean Simmons, Alan Young, Robert Newton, Maurice Evans

Directed by Chester Erskine

Comedy

19521h 38m5.8

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.