Born Free of three cubs. The Adamsons made an agreement not to handle the cubs, in contrast to the way they did with Elsa. The film's credits list lions and lionesses Boy, Girl, Henrietta, Mara, Ugas, and "the Cubs". The film reunited the real life couple Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna as a couple first seen together in "The Smallest Show on Earth" in 1957. George Adamson served as chief technical advisor on the film and discusses his involvement in his first autobiography, "Bwana Game" (UK title, 1968), known in the US as "A Lifetime with Lions". According to Ben Mankiewicz, who
Bill Travers a leg and dislocated a shoulder. He played the title role in a British TV version of "The Admirable Crichton" (1968), alongside his wife, and had a small part in Peter Hall's adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1968). Travers teamed up with James Hill, the director of "Born Free", to make the documentary, "The Lions Are Free" (1969), which both men directed. Travers and McKenna made another "animal movie", "Ring of Bright Water" (1969) for which he also wrote the script. They followed this with "An Elephant Called Slowly" (1970), which Travers helped write and produce with James Hill,