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Androcles and the Lion (1952)
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9 January 1953 (USA) moreTagline:
Flaming story of history's most fabulous era!User Comments:
Interesting and enjoyable moreCast
(Credited cast) | Jean Simmons | ... | Lavinia |
 | Victor Mature | ... | Captain |
 | 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 |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Sylvia Lewis | ... | Queen of the Vestal Virgins |
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Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion (UK) (complete title) (USA) (complete title)more
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)Fun Stuff
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Stock footage from the RKO film The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) was used in shots of the crowds filing into the Colosseum. moreFAQ
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This movie doesn't seem to know what it wants to be, but it's still strangely affecting and a pleasurable viewing experience. Simmons, who seems to have just stepped over from the set of "The Robe" for this role, is gorgeous, and well suited to play these parts. Ditto Mature (the well suited part, at least.) Alan Young, best remembered -- if at all -- for the "Mr. Ed" TV show, is okay, and I guess that's the way the role was written. It's a low-key version of all those epics that is mainly interesting due to the cast, as well as some nice production values. (Of course the scenes with the lion are hopelessly fake looking, but even DeMille had trouble staging a close encounter between a man and a lion in "Samson and Delilah.")