Born Free (1966)
"From The Pages Of The Beloved Best Seller... A Motion Picture To Delight All The World!"
ThumbScore
👍 79%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 88%
(RT: 88%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Virginia McKenna as Joy Adamson
Bill Travers as George Adamson
Peter Lukoye as Nuru
Omar Chambati as Makkede
Bill Godden as Sam
Robert S. Young as James
Bryan Epsom as Baker
Is Born Free good?
Most people think so. 79% audience score, estimated from 135 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 88%.
Overview
At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are shipped off to a zoo in the Netherlands, the smallest of the three, Elsa, stays with the couple. When Elsa is blamed for causing an elephant stampede in the nearby village, head warden John Kendall demands the young lion either be trained to survive in the wilds of the Serengeti or be sent to a zoo. Wikipedia ↗
