Bill and Ginny are invited by a naturalist friend to take care of his home in Africa while he is away, and they find themselves adopted by three orphan elephants.
Practical Effects
Actual elephants. No animatronics. One definitely stepped on someone.
Acting
Virginia McKenna's genuine terror when elephants enter her kitchen.
Production
Shot on George Adamson's actual Kenyan reserve. That's his house.
Director
James Hill
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The elephants were orphans from Tsavo National Park; one, Eleanor, became famous and lived to 55. The 'acting' was basically just being elephants.
This is essentially colonial comfort food—white British couple 'adopts' African landscape and wildlife while actual Kenyans barely speak. Hill also directed Born Free, because apparently this was his entire career.
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