1952
Comedy | Drama
USA | English | Color | 01:38
| 1. | Major Barbara | 1941 |
| 2. | Caesar And Cleopatra | 1946 |
| 3. | Androcles And The Lion | 1952 |
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.
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Jean Simmons | Lavinia |
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Victor Mature | Captain |
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Alan Young | Androcles |
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Robert Newton | Ferrovius |
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Maurice Evans | Emperor Antoninus (Caesar) |
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Elsa Lanchester | Megaera |
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Reginald Gardiner | Lentulus |
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Gene Lockhart | Menagerie Keeper |
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Alan Mowbray | Editor of Gladiators |
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Noel Willman | Spintho |
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John Hoyt | Cato |
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Jim Backus | Centurion |
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Lowell Gilmore | Metellus |
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Woody Strode | The Lion |
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Abdullah Abbas | Gladiator |
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Doris Barton | Vestal Virgin |
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Mary Bayless | Christian |
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Chet Brandenburg | Christian |
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Carol Brooks | Vestal Virgin |
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Joe Brooks | Roman Soldier |
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James J. Casino | Roman Soldier |
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Lillian Clayes | Christian Woman |
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Harry Cording | Soldier |
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Paul Cristo | Roman Citizen |
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Clint Dorrington | Officer in Forest |
| Director | Chester Erskine |
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| Nicholas Ray |
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| Writer | Chester Erskine, Ken Englund, George Bernard Shaw | |
| Producer | Gabriel Pascal, Lewis J. Rachmil | |
| Musician | Friedrich Hollaender | |
| Photography | Harry Stradling Sr. | |
| Edition | Criterion Eclipse |
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| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Regions | 1 |