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Here are a few more things worth knowing about the RKO Radio Pictures comedy flick. Androcles and the Lion starring Victor Mature, Jean Simmons, Alan Young, Robert Newton has a NR rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 38 min. The release date of the movie is December 1st, 1952. The movie received a user score of 58/100 on TMDb, which comes from reviews from 15 active users.
Need a fast recap before watching? Here's the plot: "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."
