Born Free

Born Free
by James Hill, Tom McGowan

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Actor: Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen, Omar Chambati, Peter Lukoye, Virginia McKenna
Director: James Hill, Tom McGowan
Brand: MCKENNA,VIRGINIA
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-03-04
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures

DVD Reviews of Born Free

DVD Review: Timeless and Memorable Story of Life Cycle!
Summary: 5 Stars

After so many reviews by the distinguished people here, very little is left unspoken, if there is at all any.
First of all, for any movie goer, this is a MUST. This is a sweet movie of a wonderful true story, performed superbly by the actors and even by the animals (whom you won't like to think as animals after the movie finishes).

Apart from technicalities (vivid imagery of Kenya), acting and top class music, what I liked most of the movie is the simple, lyrical way it tells us the eternal story of life cycle. Not only of lions or animals, but human being as well, may be of all living beings.
Passion and care in grooming Elsa and her siblings were no different than grooming one's own children (the couple had no children), while the way Elsa has been trained to acclimatized to the world including swimming only reminds us about growing kids. The ultimate test of parenthood for the couple came to teach and facilitate Elsa to have a partner in the wild, which brought in as much excitement, joy, suspense and concern as parents feel when their daughter gets married. The wonder of the movie is, through this cycle of the lions, we remember the eternal cycle of life of human being as well. Starting with Elsa's cubhood to her motherhood, thereby triggering another set of cubhood - the film charms us with this ageless story of life cycle. A sweet, brilliant and memorable movie.

DVD Review: born free
Summary: 5 Stars

the country views were beauitful,the story was happy, sad, and had ending that potrayed real life even if it does not have ahappy ending for the animals that are released.

DVD Review: BORN FREE
Summary: 4 Stars

I saw this as a child. I liked the movie then and I like it now. I have learned so much of the history of the story and the actors and the real George and Joy Adamson. The continued story including Christian the lion. This story has impacted 6 people deeply. I have been humming the theme song all month. Get this movie and introduce it to another generation of young people. Enjoyable

Debra Envall

DVD Review: excellent old movie
Summary: 5 Stars

I loved this movie when I watched it again many yesrs after loving it as a child. It's heartwarming and worth owning! Kudos to the Adamsons. They are now my heros.

DVD Review: Postscript
Summary: 5 Stars

More tragedy on the plains of Africa...

Astonishingly, Joy Adamson and George Adamson were both murdered, in 1980 and 1989 respectively.

Joy's death was originally thought to be due to a lion mauling, according to the autopsy report. Then it was hinted that she had been murdered with a weapon which inflicted wounds similar to a lion's...traces of metal in the cut flesh. Finally, Paul Nakware Ekai, one of the compound's employees, was charged and convicted of her murder. He initially admitted to stabbing Joy, later stating that she had shot him in the foot, and he, in turn, of shooting her three times. Her temperament was not, by some accounts, remotely similar to Miss McKenna's.

George was shot and killed by Somali bandits while coming to the aid of another safari.

Parenthetically, Dian Fossey (Gorillas in the Mist)was brutally murdered in 1985. Her true assailant, a government official, has recently been charged with her murder, though two others were earlier convicted of the crime, Kangaroo-Court style.

The 1980's were bad years for prominent naturalists.

1966 was a good vintage for great films: Born Free, A Man for all Seasons, The Professionals, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Nice to experience (not merely see) films where you respect and admire all of the central characters, human or otherwise.

Description of Born Free

Based on a true story of a couple who raise a lion cub and then set her free when she reaches adulthood.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 3-APR-2007
Media Type: DVD

Born Free is a bona fide family classic. The tale of how Kenya game warden George Adamson and his wife Joy (on whose book the film is based, with Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers in the principal roles) adopted and raised three orphaned lion cubs, taking a particular shine to the one they call Elsa before helping her return to the wild, is familiar by now; so's John Barry's Oscar-winning title song. And while the movie has its flaws (it contains references to "Bwana George" and such that would be considered frightfully un-PC nowadays), the animal footage, especially that of the lions in their various stages of development, is extraordinary and timelessly entertaining. DVD bonus features are limited to theatrical trailers, but the digitally remastered film can be viewed in both widescreen and full screen. A keeper. --Sam Graham

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