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Androcles and the Lion is a 1952 RKO film produced by Gabriel Pascal from the 1912 George Bernard Shaw play of the same name. It was Pascal's last film, made two years after the death of Shaw, his long-standing friend and mentor, and two years before Pascal's own death.
Androcles and the Lion: Directed by Chester Erskine, Nicholas Ray. With Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Alan Young, Robert Newton. Story of a Christian in ancient Rome who befriends a lion.
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- Adventure, Comedy, Family
- Chester Erskine, Nicholas Ray
- 1953-01-09
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Based on George Bernard Shaw's play, an adaptation of the classic folktale, this film follows Androcles (Alan Young), a slave in Ancient Rome who has escaped his bonds...
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- Jean Simmons
- Chester Erskine
- Comedy
Androcles and the Lion: Directed by Joe Layton. With Norman Wisdom, Noël Coward, Ed Ames, Brian Bedford. The story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himself and his friends from martyrdom in the Roman Colosseum.
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- Musical
- Joe Layton
- 1967-11-15
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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.
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