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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 | |
John Hoyt | Cato | |
Jim Backus | Centurion | |
Woody Strode | The Lion | |
Noel Willman | Spintho | |
Lowell Gilmore | Metellus | |
Lillian Clayes | Christian Woman |
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Producer | Gabriel Pascal
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Writer | Chester Erskine
George Bernard Shaw |
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Cinematography | Harry Stradling Sr
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Musician | Friedrich Hollaender
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Androcles is a Christian who follows that religion's teachings even as they apply to the treatment of animals. Seeing a lion in pain, he removes a huge thorn from the beast's paw, creating a friend for life. Androcles and a number of other Christians are evenutally arrested and condemned to death in the arena. They are to die by being eaten by lions. Is it too much to hope that one of the lions may have a paw that has healed recently and might remember who helped heal it? |
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