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.
Top Billed Cast
Victor Mature
Captain
Jean Simmons
Lavinina
Alan Young
Androcles
Robert Newton
Ferrovius
Maurice Evans
Caesar
Featured Crew
Chester Erskine
Director
Chester Erskine
Adaptation
Ken Englund
Adaptation
George Bernard Shaw
Theatre Play
Gabriel Pascal
Producer
Nicholas Ray
Co-Director
Lewis J. Rachmil
Associate Producer
Roland Gross
Editor
Harry Horner
Production Design
William Cameron Menzies
Production Design
Albert S. D'Agostino
Art Direction
Charles F. Pyke
Art Direction
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