At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are shipped off to a zoo in the Netherlands, the smallest of the three, Elsa, stays with the couple. When Elsa is blamed for causing an elephant stampede in the nearby village, head warden John Kendall demands the young lion either be trained to survive in the wilds of the Serengeti or be sent to a zoo.
Virginia McKenna
Joy Adamson
Bill Travers
George Adamson
Geoffrey Keen
Kendall
Peter Lukoye
Nuru
Omar Chambati
Makkede
Bill Godden
Sam
Robert S. Young
James
Bryan Epsom
Baker
Geoffrey Best
Watson
Robert Cheetham
Ken
Surya Patel
Doctor
Elsa
Lion Cub/Lioness (uncredited)
Pati
Rock Hyrax (uncredited)
