Androcles and the Lion
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. And Pascal’s final Shaw production plays it broadly, casting comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. He’s ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.
Genre: Comedy
Actor: Alan Mowbray, Alan Young, Elsa Lanchester, Gene Lockhart, Jean Simmons, Maurice Evans, Reginald Gardiner, Robert Newton, Victor MatureDirector: Chester Erskine
