Bill travers born free

1966 British film by James Hill

This article is about the 1966 film. For other uses, see Born Free (disambiguation).

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.

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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.

Plot

In the Northern province of Kenya, British Game Warden George Adamson is forced to kill a man-eating lion and his