Androcles and the Lion
Androcles and the Lion
Overview
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
Victor Mature
Jean Simmons
Alan Young
Robert Newton
Maurice Evans
Elsa Lanchester
Reginald Gardiner
Gene Lockhart
Alan Mowbray
Noel Willman
John Hoyt
Jim Backus
Lowell Gilmore
Woody Strode
Strother Martin
Crew
Chester Erskine
Chester Erskine
Ken Englund
George Bernard Shaw
Gabriel Pascal
Mel Berns
Harry Stradling Sr.
Nicholas Ray
Emile Santiago
Lewis J. Rachmil
Friedrich Hollaender
Roland Gross
Harry Horner
William Cameron Menzies
