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Androcles and the Lion

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

1952 · 1 h 38 min
Directed by Nicholas Ray
AdventureComedyFamily

Cast

Cast not recorded here

Plot

George Bernard Shaw's play about a Christian tailor who befriends a lion in the Roman Empire.

Sinekatalog’s take

Nicholas Ray (and Chester Erskine) directed this RKO version, with Alan Young, Jean Simmons and Victor Mature, a light, broad and uneven comedy.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 5.9 / 10 (1,193 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.