Androcles and the Lion (1952)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.3/10   

Director:

Chester Erskine

Escritores:

Chester Erskine (adaptation) and
Ken Englund (adaptation)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

9 enero 1953 (USA)

Género:

Comedia

Frase comercial:

Flaming story of history's most fabulous era!

Plot:

Story of a Christian in ancient Rome who befriends a lion.

Plot Keywords:

Lion | Arena | Ancient Rome | Colosseum | Satire

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Sattire?, comedy?, it's a riot either way!.

Reparto

Jean Simmons	...	Lavinia
Victor Mature	...	Captain
Alan Young	...	Androcles
Robert Newton	...	Ferrovius
Maurice Evans	...	Caesar
Elsa Lanchester	...	Megaera
Reginald Gardiner	...	Lentulus
Gene Lockhart	...	Menagerie keeper
Alan Mowbray	...	Editor of gladiators
Noel Willman	...	Spintho
John Hoyt	...	Cato
Jim Backus	...	Centurion
Lowell Gilmore	...	Metellus
Woody Strode	...	The Lion
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Sylvia Lewis	...	Queen of the Vestal Virgins

También conocida como:

Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion (UK) (complete title) (USA) (complete title)
Androcles y el león (Spain) [es]

Duración:

98 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Clasificación:

USA:Approved (MPAA rating: certificate #15147) | UK:U | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Compañía:

RKO Radio Pictures

Trivialidades:

After principal filming was completed, Howard Hughes decided the film needed some extra sprucing up. He had Nicholas Ray shoot a "Vestal Virgin Bathing Sequence" which immediately ran afoul with censors and enraged producer Gabriel Pascal, among others. The sequence was eventually deleted from release prints.

Conexiones de Película:

Apariciones The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)

Sattire?, comedy?, it's a riot either way!.

Androcles is a devout Christian, all creatures are friends of the Earth. During an encounter with a lion, who is roaring in pain, he removes a huge thorn from the beast's paw, thus creating a friend for life. A short time after the incident, Androcles and a number of other Christians are arrested and condemned to death in the arena. They are to die by fighting with gladiators or eaten alive by lions, is there any chance that Androcles and his companions can survive their fate ?.

During my viewing of this film, i was eating some soup and bread, i literally nearly choked on the bread and expelled the soup via my nose!. Such is the hammy comedy on offer here, Androcles And The Lion, adapted from a George Bernard Shaw play, is an enjoyable picture if one is prepared for just what a ham sandwich it is. The cast, featuring Victor Mature, Jean Simmons, Alan Young and Robert Newton, play it as cardboard cutouts {Simmons possibly the only one taking it serious}, with the technical aspects so bad i dare you not to laugh out loud as Young dances with a man in a Lion suit!!.

Don't take it serious and you should be OK, and i'm certainly not annoyed that i sat thru it, but i would rather wrestle a Lion and two Tigers before i had to sit and watch it again!. 4/10