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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
Oct 30, 2020 · The NBC network broadcast a musical adaptation of the play, with songs by Richard Rodgers, on November 27, 1967. Joe Layton directed Noël Coward, Norman Wisdom and Ed Ames in the musical version, which was also titled Androcles and the Lion.
- Chester Erskine, Nicholas Ray, Lloyd Richards
- Jean Simmons
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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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 and fled into the...
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- Jean Simmons
- Chester Erskine
- Comedy
Synopsis by Hal Erickson. With George Bernard Shaw safely in his grave, RKO chief Howard Hughes had no qualms about twisting and bending Shaw's Androcles & the Lion to accommodate his own notions of entertainment.
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.
