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Androcles and the Lion (1952)
director of photography:
Harry Stradling Sr.
cast:
Victor Mature, Jean Simmons, Alan Young, Robert Newton, Maurice Evans, Elsa Lanchester, Reginald Gardiner, Gene Lockhart
rating:
NR
director:
Chester Erskine
running time:
98 min.
synopsis
George Bernard Shaws breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fableabout a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lions paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind actwas written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascals final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. Hes ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.
George Bernard Shaws breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fableabout a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lions paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind actwas written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascals final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. Hes ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.
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