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Androcles and the Lion

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Calorie Rating: 138
Released: 1952-12-01
MPAA Rating: NR
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Studios: RKO Radio Pictures,


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 / Directors

Nicholas Ray
Co-Director
Gregg Peters
Assistant Director

Coby Ruskin
Assistant Director
Arthur J. Vitarelli
Assistant Director


Cast

Victor Mature
Character: Captain
Jean Simmons
Character: Lavinina
Alan Young
Character: Androcles

Robert Newton
Character: Ferrovius
Maurice Evans
Character: Caesar
Elsa Lanchester
Character: Megaera

Reginald Gardiner
Character: Lentulus
Gene Lockhart
Character: Menagerie Keeper
Alan Mowbray
Character: Editor of Gladiators

Noel Willman
Character: Spintho
John Hoyt
Character: Cato
Jim Backus
Character: Centurion

Lowell Gilmore
Character: Metellus
Woody Strode
Character: The Lion
Strother Martin
Character: Soldier (uncredited)

Millard Sherwood
Character: Christian (uncredited)


Production and Crew

Ken Englund
Adaptation

Mel Berns
Makeup Artist
Harry Stradling Sr.
Director of Photography

Emile Santiago
Costume Design
Lewis J. Rachmil
Associate Producer

Harry Horner
Production Design
William Cameron Menzies
Production Design

Charles F. Pyke
Art Direction
Al Orenbach
Set Decoration
Darrell Silvera
Set Decoration

Larry Germain
Hairstylist


Friedrich Hollaender
Original Music Composer