We’ve had some great news from the guys over at Eureka Entertainment today, they are going to be releasing the 1966 movie Born Free, James Hill’s adaptation of Joy Adamson’s best-selling book starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK in a special Dual-format edition.
This wondrous true adventure from the best-selling novel about a woman who raised a lioness and eventually set her free is beautifully photographed on the vast, golden savannas of central Africa.
When game warden George Adamson (Bill Travers) is forced to kill a menacing lion and lioness, he and his wife Joy (Virginia McKenna) adopt their three cubs. Two are sent off to zoos, but the third is kept – a female they name Elsa – to which they have become particularly attached. When Elsa becomes a full-grown lioness, the Adamsons realise that she must be set free and taught to survive on her own. A year later the Adamsons return to the savanna and are surprised by a very special welcome from their old friend.
“Born Free gives us a deep deep myth – and it’s a very encouraging myth – that we are at one with nature. Death and destruction and pain and agony are not part of that myth. They happen to be part of the natural world”
– David Attenborough
Highly acclaimed for its cinematography and music, Born Free is a story of courage and love, nature, and a relationship unlike any other ever filmed. Eureka Entertainment have told us they are proud to present the film on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK, in a special Dual-Format edition.
BORN FREE DUAL FORMAT SPECIAL FEATURES
- Stunning High-Definition presentation
- Uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Isolated score track
- Audio Commentary with Film Historians Jon Burlingame, Julie Kirgo, and Nick Redman
- Spirit of Elsa – a featurette on the Born Free Foundations work in Kenya
- Elsa the Lioness 60th Anniversary – a short featurette about Elsa, the lioness whose story is the basis for Born Free
- Promotional featurette, generously provided by the Born Free Foundation
- Original Theatrical Trailers
The Born Free special Dual-format edition is certainly a movie that many will want to add to their film collection when it is released on 8 May 2017.
Karen Woodham is the founder and owner of the Blazing Minds. She is also a Cinema reviewer and works with RealD 3D reviewing the latest 3D releases and IMAX, she has also had several articles published in various publications including the first edition of SFW Magazine. In 2015 she became an Award Winning Blogger and also has her website listed as one of the UK’s Top 10 Film Blogs.
