Plot:

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.

Tags:

Actors - Crew

Victor Mature
Captain

Jean Simmons
Lavinina

Alan Young
Androcles

Robert Newton
Ferrovius

Maurice Evans
Caesar

Elsa Lanchester
Megaera

Chester Erskine
Director

George Bernard Shaw
Theatre Play

Ken Englund
Adaptation

Gabriel Pascal
Producer

Nicholas Ray
Co-Director

Al Orenbach
Set Decoration

Similar movies:

6.969 2893

Addams Family Values (1993)

7.251 3601

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

7.119 1508

National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)

7.297 4391

Airplane! (1980)

6.762 2545

Death Becomes Her (1992)

6.6 264

Postcards from the Edge (1990)

6.59 759

It Could Happen to You (1994)

7 4452

The Addams Family (1991)

7.2 3205

Trading Places (1983)

7.184 6170

One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)

6.571 4334

Ghostbusters II (1989)

7.161 4341

Matilda (1996)