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Born Free

1966 · 95 min

A warm, sweeping wildlife adventure that blends gentle drama with awe for nature, anchored by a real couple's devotion to an orphaned lioness.

Tagline
From The Pages Of The Beloved Best Seller... A Motion Picture To Delight All The World!
Overview
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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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • freedom
  • nature
  • family
  • parenthood
  • love
Places
  • wilderness
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour3
Realism7
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
adventure, family, drama, history
Directed by
James Hill
Written by
Lester Cole
Starring
Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen, Peter Lukoye, Omar Chambati, Bill Godden, Robert S. Young, Bryan Epsom
Music
John Barry
Cinematography
Kenneth Talbot
Runtime
95 min
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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