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Androcles and the Lion (1952) [NR]

Release Date:
December 1, 1952

Original Title:
Androcles and the Lion

Alternate Titles:
Androcles e o Leão
Androcles och lejonet
Androcles y el León
Androcles y el león
Androclo e il leone
Androclès et le lion
Androkles ja leijona
Androkles og løven
Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion
O androklis kai to liontari

Genres:
Comedy

Production Companies:
RKO Radio Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR 

Runtime: 98

SPECTACLE, ROMANCE, COMEDY!...as only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Production

Adaptation:
Ken Englund
Chester Erskine

Art Direction:
Charles F. Pyke
Albert S. D'Agostino

Assistant Director:
Gregg Peters
Arthur J. Vitarelli
Coby Ruskin

Associate Producer:
Lewis J. Rachmil

Co-Director:
Nicholas Ray

Costume Design:
Emile Santiago

Director:
Chester Erskine

Director of Photography:
Harry Stradling Sr.

Editor:
Roland Gross

Hairstylist:
Larry Germain

Makeup Artist:
Mel Berns

Original Music Composer:
Friedrich Hollaender

Producer:
Gabriel Pascal

Production Design:
Harry Horner
William Cameron Menzies

Set Decoration:
Al Orenbach
Darrell Silvera

Sound:
John L. Cass
Clem Portman

Stunts:
Stubby Kruger
Wayne Burson
Alex Sharp

Theatre Play:
George Bernard Shaw

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