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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.
Theatrical
Dec 1, 1952
Director
Producers
Music
Studio
RKO Radio Pictures
Cast
Full credits →V
Victor Mature
Captain
J
Jean Simmons
Lavinina
A
Alan Young
Androcles
R
Robert Newton
Ferrovius
M
Maurice Evans
Caesar
E
Elsa Lanchester
Megaera
R
Reginald Gardiner
Lentulus
G
Gene Lockhart
Menagerie Keeper
A
Alan Mowbray
Editor of Gladiators
N
Noel Willman
Spintho
J
John Hoyt
Cato
J
Jim Backus
Centurion
L
Lowell Gilmore
Metellus
W
Woody Strode
The Lion
S
Strother Martin
Soldier (uncredited)
M
Millard Sherwood
Christian (uncredited)
