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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Joy Adamson (book)
Lester Cole (screenplay) (originally as Gerald L.C. Copley)
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Release Date:
22 June 1966 (USA) more
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Tagline:
From The Pages Of The Beloved Best Seller... A Motion Picture To Delight All The World!
Plot:
Joy Adamson and her husband, Kenya game warden George Adamson, raise Elsa, a lion cub. When Elsa approaches maturity... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 6 nominations more
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innocence lost more (18 total)

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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG for some wild animal action and brief language.
Runtime:
95 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System)
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Both the lions "Boy" and "Girl" were freed upon completion of filming. more
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5 out of 5 people found the following review useful.
innocence lost, 24 June 2005
7/10
Author: Natheer Al Mahdi from Jerusalem

It's really hard now days to get the same feelings that this film brings to your soul, innocence, love, devotion, honesty. It's all rare commodities in the today's life in general. It's really hard now days to get the same feelings that this film brings to your soul, innocence, love, devotion, honesty. It's all rare commodities in the today's life in general. Virginia McKenna & Bill Travers are the perfect couples.

The film brings you the atmosphere of the great African wildlife on its last glorious days; I and my family enjoyed this film very much. It was a wonderful experience for my kids its represent the animal in a realistic and compassionate way not like the cg cartoons or other comic animal films of todays.

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