04 Sep 2014
Beard Chef
A look at the life of a man and his hat and his beard.
Androcles and the Lion
SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!
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.
Top Billed Cast
Victor Mature Captain
Jean Simmons Lavinina
Alan Young Androcles
Robert Newton Ferrovius
Maurice Evans Caesar
Elsa Lanchester Megaera
Reginald Gardiner Lentulus
Gene Lockhart Menagerie Keeper
Alan Mowbray Editor of Gladiators
Noel Willman Spintho
John Hoyt Cato
Jim Backus Centurion
Lowell Gilmore Metellus
Woody Strode The Lion
Strother Martin Soldier (uncredited)
Millard Sherwood Christian (uncredited)
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