This film is based on
a true story and a book written by Joy Adamson. George
and Joy Adamson live in northern Kenya where George works as a senior game
warden for this region. One
of his jobs is to track down dangerous animals that threaten humans, livestock
and crops. George and his team
kill a man-eating lion and they have to kill the lioness when she charges
them. They didn’t know she was
protecting her three young female cubs.
George brings them home and they try 17 different formulas until finally
they get the cubs to eat. They
were very worried the cubs would die since they wouldn’t drink
anything. As they grow, two of the
cubs are sent to Rotterdam Zoo.
Elsa the smallest stays behind because Joy can’t bear to let her go. When she becomes full grown, George and
Joy attempt to teach her to live in the wild. Joe believes Elsa would hate living in a zoo but she knows nothing about being a wild lion.
This is very
good. Even though this is from 1966, I didn’t watch this earlier
because I was worried it would be too difficult to see but it’s not that
way at all. There are setbacks and
fears but it’s interesting and worthwhile. 3 ½* (I liked this movie)
95
min, Adventure directed by James Hill, Tom McGowan with Virginia McKenna, Bill
Travers, Geoffrey Keen, Peter Lukoye, Omar Chambati, Bill Godden, Bryan Epsom,
Robert Cheetham, Robert S. Young.
Note: Imdb 7.3 out of 10, 92% critic 87%
audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon 4.8* out of 5* with 323 reviews.
Special
Note: A lot of reviewers have seen
this movie multiple times.
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