Release Date

01 Dec, 1952

Runtime

01:38: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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

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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Actors

Victor Mature

Jean Simmons

Alan Young

Robert Newton

Maurice Evans

Elsa Lanchester

Reginald Gardiner

Gene Lockhart

Alan Mowbray

Noel Willman

John Hoyt

Jim Backus

Lowell Gilmore

Woody Strode

Strother Martin

Millard Sherwood

Crew

Chester Erskine

Ken Englund

Chester Erskine

George Bernard Shaw

Gabriel Pascal

Nicholas Ray

Stubby Kruger

Arthur J. Vitarelli

Roland Gross

William Cameron Menzies

Charles F. Pyke

Larry Germain

Wayne Burson

Al Orenbach