Androcles and the Lion

(1952)

★ 5.9 IMDb · 16 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1952

Runtime: 98 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Chester Erskine

Cast: Victor Mature, Jean Simmons, Алан Янг, Роберт Ньютон, Морис Эванс, Elsa Lanchester, Reginald Gardiner, Gene Lockhart, Алан Маубрэй, Noel Willman

Plot

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.