Androcles and the Lion (1952 film)

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Androcles and the Lion

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Directed by Chester Erskine
Produced by Gabriel Pascal
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Ken Englund
Chester Erskine
Starring Jean Simmons
Victor Mature
Alan Young
Editing by Roland Gross
Distributed by RKO
Release date(s) 1952
Running time 98 min.
Country UK
Language English
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Androcles and the Lion is a 1952 RKO film produced by Gabriel Pascal from the George Bernard Shaw play. It starred Jean Simmons, Victor Mature and Alan Young with Robert Newton, Maurice Evans, Elsa Lanchester, Reginald Gardiner, Gene Lockhart, Alan Mowbray, Noel Willman, John Hoyt, Jim Backus and Woody Strode.

This was Gabriel Pascal's last film, made two years after the death of his long-standing mentor and partner Bernard Shaw and two years before his own death in 1954.

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Alan Young went on to play the leading role in the 1960's television series, Mr. Ed, about a talking horse.

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