Born Free Born Free Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, a real-life couple who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood, and released her into the wilderness of Kenya. The film was produced by Open Road Films Ltd. and Columbia Pictures. The screenplay, written by blacklisted Hollywood writer Lester Cole (under the pseudonym "Gerald L.C. Copley"), was based upon Joy Adamson's 1960 non-fiction book "Born Free". The film was directed by James Hill and produced by Sam Jaffe and Paul Radin. "Born Free", and its musical
Alice in Wonderland (1966 TV play) of the Caucus Race. David Battley appears briefly as the Executioner. Interior scenes were shot at Netley Hospital, a mid-19th-century building that was demolished not long after the film was made. The courtroom scene was shot at the BBC's Ealing Studios and involved the building of the largest set that Stage 2 at Ealing had ever seen. Ravi Shankar wrote the music for the production, which was first broadcast on 28 December 1966. Alice in Wonderland (1966 TV play) Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play, shot on film, based on "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll.