Born Free

Based On the book by Joy Adamson

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.

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Release date:

March 14, 1966

Director:

James Hill

Cast:

Virginia McKenna, Geoffrey Keen

Genre:

Adventure, Drama, Children's

Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Year page:

1966 in adaptations