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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.
Cast: 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
Cinematographer: Harry Stradling Sr.
Production Designer: William Cameron Menzies, Charles F. Pyke
Editor: Roland Gross
Sound Designer: John L. Cass, Clem Portman
Composer: Friedrich Hollaender
Costume Designer: Emile Santiago
Direction team: Nicholas Ray (Co-Director), Arthur J. Vitarelli (Assistant Director), Gregg Peters (Assistant Director), Coby Ruskin (Assistant Director)
Producers: Gabriel Pascal, Lewis J. Rachmil
Production: RKO Radio Pictures
