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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Joy Adamson (book)
Lester Cole (screenplay) (originally as Gerald L.C. Copley)
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Release Date:
22 June 1966 (USA) more
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Tagline:
From The Pages Of The Beloved Best Seller... A Motion Picture To Delight All The World!
Plot:
Joy Adamson and her husband, Kenya game warden George Adamson, raise Elsa, a lion cub. When Elsa approaches maturity... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 6 nominations more
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MPAA:
Rated PG for some wild animal action and brief language.
Runtime:
95 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System)
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When John Barry won Oscars for "Best Music, Original Music Score" and "Best Music, Original Song" for this film, not only was it his first Oscar victory, it was also the first time an Englishman had won both those particular categories. Barry first heard of his wins from friend Michael Crawford who'd seen the ceremonies on TV in New York and called him in the UK with the news. more
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Born Free, 13 April 2000
Author: Janos Smal (jsmal@osi.hu) from Budapest, Hungary

Joy Adamson and her husband, Kenya game warden George Adamson, bring up a lion cub Elsa, but later they have to teach her about the wild and free life she was born to.

Warm, good-looking but rather casually assembled screen version of a highly popular bestseller, with irresistible animal shots that made it enormously successful at the box-office - and over the years a family film "par excellence". It started a cycle then and was followed by the less successful "Living Free".

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