This article is about the 1966 film. For other uses, see Born Free (disambiguation).
Born Free
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
James Hill
Screenplay by
Gerald L.C. Copley
Based on
Born Free by Joy Adamson
Produced by
Sam Jaffe Paul Radin
Starring
Virginia McKenna Bill Travers
Cinematography
Kenneth Talbot
Edited by
Don Deacon
Music by
John Barry
Production company
Shepperton Studios
Distributed by
Columbia Pictures
Release dates
14 March 1966 (1966-03-14)
(UK) (Royal Film Performance)
22 June 1966 (1966-06-22)
(US)
Running time
95 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Budget
$2 million[1]
Box office
$3.6 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[2]
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. 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.
^Champlin, C. (10 October 1966). "Foreman hopes to reverse runaway". Los Angeles Times. ProQuest 155553672.
^"Big Rental Pictures of 1966", Variety, 4 January 1967 p. 8
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