Born Free (1966)
1h 35m
Running Time
March 26, 1966Release Date
Born Free (1966)
1h 35m
Running Time
March 26, 1966Release Date
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Plot.
At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are shipped off to a zoo in the Netherlands, the smallest of the three, Elsa, stays with the couple. When Elsa is blamed for causing an elephant stampede in the nearby village, head warden John Kendall demands the young lion either be trained to survive in the wilds of the Serengeti or be sent to a zoo.
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Cast & Crew.
Virginia McKenna
Joy Adamson
Bill Travers
George Adamson
Geoffrey Keen
Kendall
Peter Lukoye
Nuru
Omar Chambati
Makkede
Bill Godden
Sam
Robert S. Young
James
Bryan Epsom
Baker
Geoffrey Best
Watson
Robert Cheetham
Ken
Surya Patel
Doctor
Elsa
Lion Cub/Lioness (uncredited)
Pati
Rock Hyrax (uncredited)
James Hill
Director
Paul B. Radin
Producer
Lester Cole
Screenplay
Don Deacon
Editor
Sam Jaffe
Producer
Don Black
Lyricist
John Barry
Songs / Original Music Composer
Joy Adamson
Book
Gavrik Losey
Assistant Director
Carl Foreman
Executive Producer
L. C. Rudkin
Production Manager
William P. Cartlidge
Assistant Director
Sidney G. Barnsby
Production Supervisor
Richard Best Jr.
Assistant Sound Editor
Bob Jones
Sound Recordist
Claude Hitchcock
Sound Recordist
Tom McGowan
Director
Chris Greenham
Sound Editor
John D. Hall
Boom Operator
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Details.
Release DateMarch 26, 1966
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 35m
Filming LocationsKenya
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
parent child relationship
lion
animal attack
game warden
lioness
lion cub
rifle
animal rights
warthog
wildlife
based on memoir or autobiography
freedom
animal
nature
Wiki.
Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring the real-life couple Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, another real-life couple, who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood and released her into the wilderness of Kenya. The film was produced by Open Road Films Ltd. and Columbia Pictures. The screenplay, written by blacklisted Hollywood writer Lester Cole (under the pseudonym "Gerald L.C. Copley"), was based upon Joy Adamson's 1960 non-fiction book Born Free. The film was directed by James Hill and produced by Sam Jaffe and Paul Radin. Born Free, and its musical score, by John Barry, as well as the title song, with lyrics by Don Black and sung by Matt Monro, won numerous awards.
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