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Androcles and the Lion

Chester Erskine

1952 • 1h 38m

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 ki...

Androcles and the Lion
Cast
Victor Mature
Victor MatureCaptain
Jean Simmons
Jean SimmonsLavinina
Alan Young
Alan YoungAndrocles
Robert Newton
Robert NewtonFerrovius
Maurice Evans
Maurice EvansCaesar
Elsa Lanchester
Elsa LanchesterMegaera
Reginald Gardiner
Reginald GardinerLentulus
Gene Lockhart
Gene LockhartMenagerie Keeper
Alan Mowbray
Alan MowbrayEditor of Gladiators
Noel Willman
Noel WillmanSpintho
John Hoyt
John HoytCato
Jim Backus
Jim BackusCenturion
Lowell Gilmore
Lowell GilmoreMetellus
Woody Strode
Woody StrodeThe Lion
Strother Martin
Strother MartinSoldier (uncredited)
Crew
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard ShawTheatre Play
Nicholas Ray
Nicholas RayCo-Director
William Cameron Menzies
William Cameron MenziesProduction Design
Albert S. D'Agostino
Albert S. D'AgostinoArt Direction
Friedrich Hollaender
Friedrich HollaenderOriginal Music Composer
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