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Born Free
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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Directed By: James Hill, Tom McGowan
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Theatrical Release: June 22, 1966
Average Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars
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Starring: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen, Peter Lukoye, Omar Chambati
A true story of elsa the lioness who was raised by game warden george adamson and his wife joy. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 04/24/2007 Starring: Virginia Mckenna Bill Travers Run time: 95 minutes Rating: Pg
User Submitted Born Free Reviews
November 4, 2008
Excellent heartwarming film
I am a huge animal lover, but somehow I had never seen this movie. The "Christian the lion" clip really got me interested in that story which led me to this story.
This movie was positively fantastic. The storyline was heartwarming in itself, but the landscape was breathtaking.
This movie was a real treat and I am sure that I will enjoy watching it again and again.
October 15, 2008
Born free
We watched this superb movie with our children 35 years back and now are injoying it again with our grandchildren. In a time of too many action movies and movies with too much violance this film is an excellent way to bring some quiet into the home
September 8, 2008
Fantastic for animal lovers
A real story and it is touching. As an animal lover myself, I love this movie.
September 2, 2008
Born Free
A friend of mine recommended me to watch this movie. Wonderful!!! I just love this movie. It was very moving. I highly recommend it.
August 29, 2008
movie review
This was a movie that I had seen with my mother years ago, and that I had never seen and always wanted to..it was absolutely awesome, and affected both my wife and myself profoundly. This is a timeless movie that will always have the power to move people in ways that will reach far into the soul. I ended up doing quite a bit of research into animal rights organizations, and also ordered the movie Christian 'the lion at Worlds End' another movie involving Virgina McKenna and Bill Travers, although more peripherally than Born Free, and more about the two men that 'adopted' Christian after buying him in Harrods and then wanted to return him to the wild and enlisted the Travers couples' help. Also an incredible true story and we were very glad that the money spent on both movies goes towards helping these wonderful animals.
June 19, 2008
Born Free.
Born Free This movie was great when it was in the theatres and it is great on DVD. A good print well preserved and the sound intact. In widescreen it is great so you can experience the vastness of the landscape.
The story is great. It is a pleasure to watch over and over. They should make more movies like this one.
May 23, 2008
Excellent remastering of 2003 DVD release
This review pertains to the March 2003 DVD release of "Born Free". The picture and sound are fantastic! This issue presents a remastering of this relatively old film--and it looks brand new! The picture is sharp and the colors are rich and accurate. The format is anamorphic widescreen, so it looks great on a large screen TV. I viewed this movie on a 46-inch Samsung high defintion LCD TV, played on a Toshiba 1080p HD DVD player--and it looks stunning!
Of course, the movie itself is worthwhile--and this remastered version makes it even more worthwhile to own and watch again and again. Highly recommended!
March 29, 2008
A Real Tear-Jerker
What can I say, a real classic film that always brings tears to my eyes. Kids will enjoy this film too. If you haven't seen it, buy it!
February 16, 2008
One of the all-time great animal films
Along with Lassie Come Home, Born Free is probably the gold standard of animal movies in terms, and there's a lotto like in this story of Joy Adamson and her gamekeeper husband trying to return the domesticated lioness Elsa to the wild: the lion cubs are cute, the Scope wildlife photography still impressive and John Barry's score especially beautiful (the famous Matt Munro song was added to the end titles after the film was already on release. Where it shows its age is when the humans take centre-stage. At times Virginia McKenna can be a bit too head girl of the hockey school as Joy Adamson for a modern audience - while the Adamsons' real-life relationship was so tempestuous they spent much of their lives apart (Travers recalled that during filming whenever George was in the doghouse, Joy would treat him with equal condescension), their movie incarnations are so determinedly nice they make characters from Disney films of the 60s look like axe murderers. That said, McKenna and Travers are one of the few real-life married couples who make a convincing couple onscreen, bringing a comfortable familiarity to their scenes that smoothes over some of the more twee dialogue.
Its surprise success after a slow start led to director James Hill reluctantly being typecast on many of the slew of similar animal films that followed in its wake while his two stars started the Born Free foundation to release zoo animals into the wild. It also led to a very unfortunate sequel, Living Free, though none of the key players apart from Carl Foreman would return.
Not much in the way of extras - only trailers - but a good widescren transfer.
February 13, 2008
As good today as it was 30 yrs ago (when I first saw it)!
I watched this movie when I was a little kid and I wanted my kids to enjoy it as much as I did. And they did! They loved it! I didn't think I could find it, and to my suprise it was even on dvd! Yeah!!!!!
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