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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Child Classic Movie Release: 1966 DVD Release: 03/04/2003 Format: DVD - Pan and Scan - Closed Captioned Edition: Restored/Remastered Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 35 mins Studio: Columbia TriStar Members Wishing: 8 Genres: Children's/Family, Animal Picture, Family-Oriented Adventure

Born Free is the heartwarming true story of a British couple who teach their pet lioness how to survive in the wilds of the African jungles. Joy and George Adamson (portrayed by real-life married couple Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers) involuntarily domesticate several lions while living in Kenya. They keep one, named Elsa, until she is fully grown, and rather than turn her over to a zoo, they decide to train her to live like a wild animal so that they can release her into her natural habitat. Geoffrey Keen is a sympathetic government official who convinces the Adamsons that they should set Elsa free to avoid being ordered to place her in captivity. The film, based on Joy Adamson's book, is poignant and emotional without ever becoming banal or overly sentimental. The title song and film score both won Academy Awards. ~ Don Kaye, All Movie Guide

Virginia McKenna - Joy Adamson
Bill Travers - George Adamson
Geoffrey Keen - Comm. Kendall
Peter Lukoye - Nuru
Omar Chambati - Makkede

Perhaps one of the most successful animal films of all time, James H. Hill's affecting, true-life tale of a domesticated lioness and the humans that raised her arrives on DVD courtesy of Columbia TriStar Home Video. Viewable in either 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen or 1.33:1 pan-and-scan, this release offers audio rendered in closed-captioned English Dolby Digital Stereo with optional English, Japanese, Spanish, Korean, and French subtitles. Bonus materials are limited to a theatrical trailer. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide