Androcles & The Lion [VHS]

Androcles & The Lion [VHS]
by Chester Erskine, Nicholas Ray

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Actor: Alan Young, Jean Simmons, Maurice Evans, Robert Newton, Victor Mature
Director: Chester Erskine, Nicholas Ray
Cinematographer: Harry Stradling Sr.
Writer: Chester Erskine
Producer: Gabriel Pascal
Producer: Lewis J. Rachmil
Writer: George Bernard Shaw
Writer: Ken Englund
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Running Time: 98 minutes
Release Date: 2000-06-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Homevision
Studio: Homevision

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Movie Review: What a GOOD Movie!
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is highly entertaining and very funny. I had laughed at some scenes in this movie. Even kids will enjoy this movie.
"Androcles and the Lion" is about a meek tailor befriending a lion by removing a thorn out of his paw (his mean wife ran away though). Androcles named the lion "Tommy". The tailor, Androcles, gets captured by the Roman army because he's a Christian, and makes friends with a beautiful woman and a burly man named Fevvorus (sp?), among other Christians with them. The beautiful woman, named Lavina, falls in love with a Roman Captain (played by Victor Mature), but she still keeps her faith in God. Later when all the Christians arrived at the Colluseum where the fighting to kill the Christian men, and the lions are for the ladies to die, Fevvorus slays all the fighters and won the affections of Ceaser. Androcles was picked to be killed by the lions...and guess who he met? The lion named Tommy! Ceaser gets impressed once more because Tommy and Androcles danced together in the arena and the lion is tame. :) Ceaser finally lets all the Christians go free, Fevvorus gets to be a guard at the palace, and Tommy and Androcles walk the streets together at the end.
Very good movie and it's highly recommended!

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Summary of Androcles & The Lion [VHS]

Based on George Bernard Shaw's sparkling play, this satire of ancient Rome is a triumph of comic dialogue and acting. The fable of the tailor who removes a thorn from a lion's paw is retold magnificently with Maurice Evans as Caesar, Robert Newton as a hilarious zealot, and the radiant Jean Simmons.

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