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Androcles and the Lion

Androcles and the Lion

Original title
Androcles and the Lion
Year
1952
Gender
Comedy
Director
Chester Erskine
Country
United States of America
Details
98 minutes / black & white / sound

Where to watch?

Stream

  • Criterion Channel
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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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