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5.6/10   143 votes
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Director:
Jack Couffer
Writers:
Joy Adamson (book)
Millard Kaufman (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
16 December 1972 (Sweden) more
Genre:
Adventure | Drama | Family more
Tagline:
Elsa the Lioness was BORN FREE...Now her cubs are LIVING FREE - DANGEROUSLY! more
Plot:
When Elsa's three mischievious cubs begin wreaking havok on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move them hundreds of miles to a game preserve. | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. more
User Comments:
Forgotten and forgettable sequel more

Cast

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Nigel Davenport ... George Adamson
Susan Hampshire ... Joy Adamson
Geoffrey Keen ... Kendall
Peter Lukoye ... Nuru
Shane De Louvre ... Makedde (as Shane De Louvres also)
Robert Beaumont ... Billy Collins
Nobby Noble ... Bank Manager
Allaudin Qureshi ... Bank Clerk (as Aludin Quershi)
Charles Hayes ... Herbert Baker
Jean Hayes ... Mrs. Herbert Baker
Elsa ... Herself
Jespah ... Himself
Gopa ... Herself
Little Elsa ... Herself
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Additional Details

Runtime:
90 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Filming Locations:
East Africa, Africa

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
'Bill Travers' and 'Virginia Mckenna' were asked to play the Adamsons again but declined. more
Movie Connections:
Followed by Born Free: A New Adventure (1996) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Living Free more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
Forgotten and forgettable sequel, 5 April 2005
4/10
Author: TrevorAclea from London, England

'Living Free' is one of those obscure sequels to huge hits that most people don't even know exist. In this case it's not hard to see why: it's pretty awful.

Susan Hampshire and Nigel Davenport make poor replacements for Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna. While you wouldn't expect them to match the original couple's easy familiarity, these two don't look like they've even been introduced yet. Worse, the film is a clumsy mess, the first quarter a clumsy rehash of the first film mixing stock footage with awkward reshot word-for-word versions of scenes restaged by the new stars with all the confidence of a blindfolded kid with both legs tied together trying to hit a piñata (although you do get to see Geoffrey Keene play a scene absolutely identically to his performance with the more experienced stars a few years earlier). When the plot does get going in the last half hour there are some genuinely tense scenes as they attempt to cage Elsa the Lioness's cubs to take them to a new reserve before they are destroyed as a menace to local farms, but you'll probably have given up by then. It doesn't even have the benefit of Scope photography or a John Barry score to sugar the pill, often looking more like a poor TV pilot than a real film (and indeed a TV series did briefly follow, albeit with a new cast). Not good.

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