George successfully manages to kill the lion and he and Joy are able to share a special holiday with Elsa, where they introduce her to the Indian Ocean. Some years later, Joy and George soon have to travel to Kiunga as George has been told by his boss, John Kendall (Geoffrey Keen) about a lion who is killing goats in a local village. When the cubs get too old, the older two are sent to Rotterdam Zoo but the Adamsons choose to keep Elsa. They name the cubs Big One, Lastika, and Elsa, who is the youngest and the one which Joy and George become especially attached to. Realizing they are now motherless, George brings the three cubs home to his wife Joy (Virginia McKenna) and raises them. British senior wildlife warden George Adamson (Bill Travers) is sent in to kill the menacing lion and also his female, who charges him in defence of her three cubs. In the Northern Province of Kenya, a woman is killed and eaten by a male lion. 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. The film was directed by James Hill and produced by Sam Jaffe and Paul Radin. Copley"), was based upon Joy Adamson's 1960 non-fiction book Born Free. The screenplay, written by blacklisted Hollywood writer Lester Cole (under the pseudonym "Gerald L.C. The film was produced by Open Road Films Ltd. US/ Canada rentals) īorn 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.
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