Sentimental, cleverly-acted drama, shot on location in East Africa. A young girl grows up there, and strikes up a friendship with a huge lion. Pamela Franklin, who plays the girl, later starred in such films as The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and David Copperfield. Technicolor photography is as ravishing as one would expect from a film directed by former cameraman Jack Cardiff, who won an Oscar for his colour camerawork on the 1946 film, Black Narcissus.

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