Androcles and the Lion Overview:

Androcles and the Lion (1952) was a Comedy - Drama Film directed by Nicholas Ray and Chester Erskine and produced by Gabriel Pascal.

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In Shaw's sparkling play set in the last days of the Roman Empire, a Christian tailor named Androcles helps a suffering lion by removing a thorn from his paw. Later, after Caesar has rounded up the Christians and sentenced them to death by the beast, the lion refuses to harm the man who has been so kind to him.

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