Androcles and the Lion (1952)

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