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.
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
The Inspector-General
Happy Is the Bride
Don't Make Grandpa Angry
Khanuma
Water Drops on Burning Rocks
Avanti!
His Majesty's Adjutant
I‘ll Marry Off My Wife
The Street is Singing
Zootopia
Him and His Sister
Secondhand Lions
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
Kocúrkovo
Conversion of Ferdys Pistora
The Hurler: A Campion's Tale
