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Androcles and the Lion

Androcles and the Lion

1952, Movie, 1h 38min

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. And Pascal's final Shaw production plays it broadly, casting comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. He's ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.

Country: United States

Director:

Chester Erskine

Cast:

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You can stream Androcles and the Lion on: The Criterion Channel

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Androcles and the Lion was released in theaters on December 1, 1952.