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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. Pascal’s final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. He’s ably ...
Sep 23, 1983 · Androcles and the Lion: With Billy Connolly, Anna Calder-Marshall, Bernard Bresslaw, Rupert Frazer. When Androcles (Sir Billy Connolly), a Christian in second-century Rome, extracts a thorn from a lion's paw, his kindness has unexpected consequences.
Androcles and the Lion: With Toke Townley, Lionel Harris, Margaret Johnston, Terence Longdon. The Greek Androcles helps an injured lion in the forest, an act which later saves his life when he and other Christians are put in the Arena and the same lion appears, refusing to harm him.
A good adult story for kids, set in ancient Rome. Full Review | Mar 4, 2015. [A] pompously stagebound and unhappily cast spectacular. Full Review | Jun 24, 2006. The intellectual content of the ...
1 hr 38 min. 6.0 (1,048) Androcles and the Lion is a 1952 adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play of the same name. The film stars Jean Simmons as Lavinia, Victor Mature as Captain, and Alan Young as Androcles. It is a comedic and lighthearted take on the story of Androcles, a Christian tailor who was thrown to the lions for his beliefs.
Happier, wiser heads prevailed before the Hughes-commissioned "Vestal Virgins" sequence, complete with near-naked dancing girls, was foisted on the public. Originally, Harpo Marx was to have played 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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