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Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, a real-life couple who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood, and released her into the wilderness of Kenya. The movie 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-fictional 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, won numerous awards.
George Adamson served as chief technical advisor on the film and discusses his involvement in his first autobiography, Bwana Game (U.K. title, 1968), known in the U.S. as A Lifetime with Lions.
The making of the film was a life-changing experience for actors Virginia McKenna and her husband Bill Travers, who became animal rights activists and were instrumental in creating the Born Free Foundation.
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Joy Adamson and her husband, Kenya game warden George Adamson, raise Elsa, a lion cub. When Elsa approaches maturity, Joy determines she must re-educate Elsa to living in the wild so that the lioness can return to a free life.
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Joy Adamson: Elsa, Elsa [Joy cries sitting out on the hood of the truck as they ride in search of the young lioness]::George Adamson: Let's try this. [2 shots ring out from his gun. George sees Elsa stumbling through the grass, approaching their vehicle]::Joy Adamson: all my nightmares had come true. [Now Elsa rests in their tent as they argue over her]::George Adamson: ...she can't make it. she can't think. she can't mix with her own kind... She can't do anything the wild animals do to survive. You've done too good a job on her. You've made her tame. It's too late to try to let her go wild now. All we're doing is making her miserable, torturing her. How could you be so cruel?::Joy Adamson: You keep quiet George.::George Adamson: I don't know what goes on in that head of yours anymore... What's wrong with a zoo, anyway?::Joy Adamson: nothing. Except that she won't be free.::George Adamson: and Is freedom so important?::Joy Adamson: yes, yes, she was born free and she has the right to live free. Why don't we live in a more comfortable setting George? Other people do. We chose to live out here cause it represents freedom for us. Because we can breathe.::George Adamson: Joy, tell me the truth. You just don't want to give her up. What you're really hoping is that she can stay out here, wild, but not too wild. That you can see her every now and then.::Joy Adamson: it's not the whole truth. But I don't deny I'd like it.::George Adamson: it's impossible. It cannot happen.::Joy Adamson: ...at least she would be free. At least she wouldn't be in a cage for the rest of her life.::George Adamson: even if she gets herself killed in the process.::Joy Adamson: [stroking Elsa's leg] I'd never forgive myself I suppose. [Joy narrates] although at one time we were afraid she'd die, Elsa did recover. And when she did, she seemed somehow different.