Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

Iseerphia All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

zardoz-13 This true-life account of a Kenya game warden's wife, Joy Adamson (Virginia McKenna), who raises three female lion cubs after their mother and father are shot is endearing. The game warden, George Adamson (Bill Travers of "Duel at Diablo"), is dispatched to kill a man-eating lion. No sooner has he killed the murderous lion than a lioness attacks them, and he is forced to bring it down, too. Too late they discover that the lioness sought only to protect her three cute cubs. George and Joy rear the three cubs and eventually give them to a zoo, but Joy is too grief-stricken by their obligation to watch her husband put them on an airplane. It seems that Joy has grown quite attached to one of the lion cubs, Elsa, enough so George keeps her for Joy. They make a docile pet out of Elsa, and the young lioness has a free run of the compound. Things get complicated when Elsa incites a herd of elephants to stampede through a village. George's immediate superior, Kendall (Geoffrey Keen of "The Spy Who Loved Me", demands that they ship Elsa off to a zoo. Naturally, Joy opposes this plan and she works hard to return Elsa to the wild where she was born free. Along the way, George suffers from a bout with malaria, but he survives and helps Joy ensure that Elsa makes it in the wild. Composer John Barry, who rose to fame and fortune with his orchestral scores to the James Bond film franchise, received an Oscar for his soundtrack as well as the title tune. Director James Hill received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Director.

Jackson Booth-Millard From director James Hill (Worzel Gummidge), I was very up for seeing both adorable and ferocious animals in a film based on a true story, and I obviously knew the title song of. Basically Joy Adamson (Golden Globe nominated Virginia McKenna) with her game warden husband George (Bill Travers) raiser three orphaned lion cubs. The two largest are sent away to Rotterdam Zoo, but the youngest of the litter, Elsa the Lioness, stays with Joy and George as almost a domesticated pet. There is a point when Elsa is blamed for a stampede of elephants, but the boss John Kendall (Bond's Sir Frederick Gray, Geoffrey Keen) gives them three months to get Elsa ready to go into the wild. Joy, opposing the idea of putting Elsa into a zoo manages to pull through with the "training", and she does eventually let her go. A year later, Joy and George return to Kenya from England for a week and spend time with Elsa, who still recognises them, and is mother to three of her own cubs. Also starring Peter Lukoye as Nuru, Omar Chambati as Makkede and Bill Godden as Sam. McKenna and Travers as the only humans to focus on bring a lot of warmth to their characters, but of course the show is stolen by the cute and cuddly creatures. Also, the magnificent music by John Barry (some of it sounds very similar to Bond, which is quite cool) works fantastically, it is a wonderfully charming biographical wildlife adventure. It won the Oscars for Best Music for John Barry, and Best Song for the title song by Matt Monro (it was also nominated the Golden Globe), and it was nominated the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Drama. It was number 66 on The 100 Greatest Family Films, and it was number 54 on The 100 Greatest Tearjerkers. Very good!

sol (Mild Spoilers) The true and unforgettable story of Elas the Lioness that the film "Born Free" is based on. After being rescued brought up and nurtured with the milk of human kindness in Kenya by British game warder George and his wife Joy Adamson, Bill Travers & Virgina McKenna, a grown up Elsa was later set free in the wild to live free and fend for herself. Having her parents shot and killed when they attacked game warder George Adamson Elsa together with her two orphan sister lion cubs were adopted by Adamson and his wife Joy as family pets. It's when Joy's beloved pet Rock Hyrax Pati passed away that she became very attached to the cute lovable as well as mischievous Elas. By then Elsa together with her sisters were starting to get a bit out of hand in tearing up the Adamson house and its surroundings. Slated to be sent to live out her life together with her two siblings at the Rotterdam Zoo in Holland George makes the fateful decision, with his wife's Joy urging, to keep Elas-the runt of the litter-and later train her to live on her own in the wild as nature intended her to. Something that up until that time has never be done with a domesticated lion and could very probably end up cosing Elsa-in being unable to either care hunt and fend for herself-her life!Touching and heart warming film with Joy and George Adamson trying to get Elsa back to nature and at one point almost killing her by doing it. Wanting Elsa to live free as God and natured intended her to was not as easy as at first thought by Joy who couldn't accept to idea of her living out the rest of her life as a caged animal in a zoo. Step by step Elas got the hang of it in being left out in the wild by the Adamsons sometimes for days at a time until she finally was able to care for herself and live free like she was meant to. In the end he final test for Elsa was her being sent out to be accepted by her fellow lions in the wild. It's there where she was challenged by a fierce alpha lioness who felt Elas was a threat to her standing in the pride. In what look like a fight to the death Elsa held her own with the lioness showing, both Joy & Bill, that she indeed can survive the brutal law of the jungle: Survival of the Fittest!***SPOILERS*** The very moving conclusion of the movie "Born Free' has both Joy and George returning to Kenya to see it their Elas is still there and, after not seeing her for days, get the biggest surprise of their lives! Not only has Elas survived she's now a proud mom with a litter of little Elsa's of her very own!

Neil Doyle But if you aren't an animal lover, this tale about a lion cub adopted by a game warden (BILL TRAVERS) and his wife (VIRGINIA McKENNA) might be too hard to digest. For anyone who has ever felt the pain of separation that comes from parting with a beloved pet, the film will win a special place in your heart.Vistas of African scenery (filmed entirely on location) and the very effective, insinuating musical score of John Barry are added compensations for a well-acted story about the taming of a lovable lion cub, its eventual growing up into a lioness (called Elsa), and the separation that comes when Elsa must be set free to take her place among the wild animals.The early scenes with the young cub (two other healthier cubs were sent to a zoo after the game warden had to kill the parents), are amusingly depicted and perhaps the most arresting part of the story. But the final scene is cloaked in the kind of sentimentality that has echoes of "Lassie Come Home" with Barry's score emphasizing a final reunion with Elsa before the "Born Free" theme hammers away at the emotions.Summing up: A nature film that animal lovers will adore.