Product: Born Free [VHS] (1966)
Rating: 5.0
Nicest movie
My kids are 4 and 2. They were given Lion King last summer and have become Lion freaks - LOVE 'EM! Then I remembered this movie from my own childhood and ordered it for them. The story of a British game-keeper, George, and his wife, Joy, who adopt a Lioness cub, Elsa, and raise her in their African home. It was made in the 60's before politically correctness became the modern facism it is, so there is some hunting (guns are pointed and fired but nothing more is shown), and one scary scene at the beginning when a rogue lion attacks an African woman at the riverside (the woman screams and the river reddens - we skip that scene). But the rest is a lot of wonderful scenes of a well-loved lioness overturning the housewares, riding on the hood of their jeep, sleeping on their cot, and generally dominating their lives in a most fantastic way, before they train her to live free again in the wild. Its a lovely story that could never be told quite this way again, and we love it.