Movie Details
Theatrical Release:December 1st, 1952
Original Language:English
Production Companies:RKO Radio Pictures
Cast & Crew
C
Chester Erskine
Director
K
Ken Englund
Adaptation
C
Chester Erskine
Adaptation
G
Gabriel Pascal
Producer
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Movie"SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!"
Audience Score
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.
DirectorChester Erskine
