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Original Title
Androcles and the Lion
Status
Released
Production Companies
RKO Radio Pictures
Original Language
EN
Budget
-
Revenue
-
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.
Director
Chester Erskine
Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English
