---
title: 'Born Free (1966)'
type: 'film'
director: 'James Hill'
released: '1966-03-14'
runtime_minutes: 95
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Adventure'
  - 'Family'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/born-free-1966'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060182/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Born Free (1966)

1966 · 95 min · Drama, Adventure, Family · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

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, 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [James Hill](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-hill-2)
- **Screenplay:** [Lester Cole](https://cinepixo.com/people/lester-cole)
- **Original Music Composer:** [John Barry](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-barry)
- **Producer:** [Sam Jaffe](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-jaffe-2), [Paul B. Radin](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-b-radin)
- **Director of Photography:** [Kenneth Talbot](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenneth-talbot)
- **Editor:** [Don Deacon](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-deacon)

## Cast

- [Geoffrey Keen](https://cinepixo.com/people/geoffrey-keen)
- [Virginia McKenna](https://cinepixo.com/people/virginia-mckenna)

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