Androcles and the Lion

Androcles and the Lion
1952Comedy98 mins

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... read more

  • Chester Erskine

    Director

  • George Bernard Shaw

    Theatre Play

  • Chester Erskine

    Adaptation

  • Ken Englund

    Adaptation

  • Harry Stradling Sr.

    Director of Photography

  • Victor Mature

    Captain

  • Jean Simmons

    Lavinina

  • Alan Young

    Androcles

  • Robert Newton

    Ferrovius

  • Maurice Evans

    Caesar

  • Elsa Lanchester

    Megaera

  • Reginald Gardiner

    Lentulus

  • Gene Lockhart

    Menagerie Keeper

  • Alan Mowbray

    Editor of Gladiators

  • Noel Willman

    Spintho

  • John Hoyt

    Cato

  • Jim Backus

    Centurion

  • Lowell Gilmore

    Metellus

  • Woody Strode

    The Lion

  • Strother Martin

    Soldier (uncredited)

  • Runtime

    98 minutes

    Released

    1952-12-01

    Languages

    English

    Countries

    United States of America

    Studios

    RKO Radio Pictures

    Updated

    482 days ago

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