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SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!
SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the scr...
Comedy - 1952
Androcles and the Lion
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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.
Director:
,
Chester Erskine
Cast:
,
Elsa Lanchester
,
Alan Mowbray
,
Maurice Evans
,
Noel Willman
,
Reginald Gardiner
,
Jean Simmons
,
Alan Young
,
Robert Newton
,
Gene Lockhart
,
Victor Mature

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Rated:
Approved
Runtime:
98 min
Release date:
1 Dec 1952
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
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Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Bernard Shaw's satirical comedy on Romans and Christians provides the basis for a fair film offering. Picture is a curious mixture of basic comedy and Shavian wit.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
4 Mar 2015
rotten:
[A] pompously stagebound and unhappily cast spectacular.
– Tom Milne,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
The intellectual content of the drama suffers from staging that is dull; the fantasy and drollery of it seem curiously clumsy and slow.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
25 Mar 2006
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