Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the lion [videorecording] / an RKO Radio picture ; Gabriel Pascal presents ; produced by Gabriel Pascal ; screen adaptation by Chester Erskine and Ken Englund ; directed by Chester Erskine.
Based on the play by Bernard Shaw. Originally released as a motion picture in 1952. Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, Maurice Evans, Alan Young, Elsa Lanchester, Reginald Gardiner, Gene Lockhart, Noel Willman.
Summary:
A Christian slave pulls a thorn from a lion's paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of this kind act.
Series:
Eclipse, series 20, George Bernard Shaw on film. George Bernard Shaw on film.
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