Product: Born Free [VHS] (1966)
Rating: 5.0
Postscript
More tragedy on the plains of Africa...Astonishingly, Joy Adamson and George Adamson were both murdered, in 1980 and 1989 respectively.Joy's death was originally thought to be due to a lion mauling, according to the autopsy report. Then it was hinted that she had been murdered with a weapon which inflicted wounds similar to a lion's...traces of metal in the cut flesh. Finally, Paul Nakware Ekai, one of the compound's employees, was charged and convicted of her murder. He initially admitted to stabbing Joy, later stating that she had shot him in the foot, and he, in turn, of shooting her three times. Her temperament was not, by some accounts, remotely similar to Miss McKenna's.George was shot and killed by Somali bandits while coming to the aid of another safari.Parenthetically, Dian Fossey (Gorillas in the Mist)was brutally murdered in 1985. Her true assailant, a government official, has recently been charged with her murder, though two others were earlier convicted of the crime, Kangaroo-Court style.The 1980's were bad years for prominent naturalists.1966 was a good vintage for great films: Born Free, A Man for all Seasons, The Professionals, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.Nice to experience (not merely see) films where you respect and admire all of the central characters, human or otherwise.