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.
as Captain
as Lavinina
as Androcles
as Ferrovius
as Caesar
as Megaera
as Lentulus
as Menagerie Keeper
as Editor of Gladiators
as Spintho
as Cato
as Centurion
as Metellus
as The Lion
as Soldier (uncredited)
as Christian (uncredited)
