Androcles and the Lion

1952

English

6.0

♡ 3

43%

based on play or musical

Nicholas Ray Director

Alan Young as Androcles

Alex Sharp as Officer

Robert Foulk as Soldier

Charlie Hall as Town Crier

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.