George Bernard Shaw's breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fableabout 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 actwas 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 naf. He's ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.