Androcles and the Lion (1952)
1952 · Feature film · 98 min · dir. Chester Erskine
SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!
- Comedy
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Chester Erskine
- Composer
- Friedrich Hollaender
- Cinematography
- Harry Stradling Sr.
- Studio
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Released
- 1952-12-01
- Running time
- 98 minutes
Cast & crew
- Chester Erskine Director
Victor Mature
Jean Simmons
Alan Young
Robert Newton
Maurice Evans
Elsa Lanchester
Reginald Gardiner
Gene Lockhart
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · My intro to feminism · judith angelo · 2024-09-10
...was GBS. 1963, middle school, my dad brought home vol1 of Contemporary Plays from the college bookstore, then another, then the third.. So I read Pygmalion, Arms & the Man, Major Barbara, Man & Superman, Androcles I was so enamored of Shaw I determined to read all his plays at the public library... I didnt, but I DID buy a paperback The Wit and Wisdom of GBS & carried it with me... I was clueless, of course, but his Afterwords alerted me to Alan J Lerner's betrayal of Eliza, and I knew without knowing how very different his heroines were from any others I'd ever heard of. Having seen his…
