Androcles and the Lion
SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!
98 mins
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.
Millard Sherwood
Christian (uncredited)
Chester Erskine
Director
Ken Englund
Adaptation
Chester Erskine
Adaptation
Gabriel Pascal
Producer
Al Orenbach
Set Decoration
Lewis J. Rachmil
Associate Producer
Darrell Silvera
Set Decoration
Larry Germain
Hairstylist
Stubby Kruger
Stunts
Wayne Burson
Stunts
Harry Horner
Production Design
Alex Sharp
Stunts
Roland Gross
Editor
Gregg Peters
Assistant Director
Arthur J. Vitarelli
Assistant Director
Charles F. Pyke
Art Direction
John L. Cass
Sound
Coby Ruskin
Assistant Director
Clem Portman
Sound
Mel Berns
Makeup Artist
Harry Stradling Sr.
Director of Photography
Emile Santiago
Costume Design
