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Androcles and the Lion

SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!

5.9(16)19521h 38m3

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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English
  • arena
  • colosseum
  • lion
  • based on play or musical
  • ancient rome
  • 2nd century

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    • TheatricalNR1 Dec 1952

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Androcles and the Lion was released on 1 December 1952.

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    CinemaSerf

    8/10/2023

    7/10

    I think Charles Erskine has done pretty well with this entertaining adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw comedy. Escaping from his overbearing wife "Magaera" (Elsa Lanchester), "Androcles" (Alan Young) discovers a lion in the wilderness with a thorn in it's paw. Despite being petrified, he removes the offending pain and the lion escapes. Shortly afterwards, he finds himself a prisoner of the Romans under the command…

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