I think Charles Erskine has done pretty well with this entertaining adaptation of the George Bern...
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![Androcles and the Lion](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/16XZFR47rhHcyh8Jh4FYpmQ7dYc.jpg)
Androcles and the Lion
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.
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Androcles and the Lion
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Status
Released
Release Date
Dec 1, 1952
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Comedy
User Score
58%
Original Title
Androcles and the Lion
Production Companies
RKO Radio Pictures
Director
Chester Erskine
Description
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
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