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Androcles and the Lion
Androcles and the Lion
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/10
38 Ratings

ANDROCLES AND THE LION

Directed by Chester Erskine
United Kingdom, 1952
Comedy

Synopsis

George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of the classic fable—about a Christian captive saved from death at the Colosseum because of his kind act of pulling a thorn from a lion’s paw—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values.

Synopsis

George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of the classic fable—about a Christian captive saved from death at the Colosseum because of his kind act of pulling a thorn from a lion’s paw—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values.