Androcles and the Lion
|Androcles and the Lion
Status: Released
Runtime: 98
Release Date: 01/12/1952
Origin Language: en
Origin Country: US
Languages: English
Production: RKO Radio Pictures
Countries: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0 (0)
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.
