Movie

Androcles and the Lion

★ 5.9/10 · 16 votes 1952 1h 38m Released

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. 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.

Cast

Victor Mature Captain Jean Simmons Lavinina Alan Young Androcles Robert Newton Ferrovius Maurice Evans Caesar Elsa Lanchester Megaera