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
as Joy Adamson
Bill Travers
as George Adamson
Geoffrey Keen
as Kendall
Peter Lukoye
as Nuru
Omar Chambati
as Makkede
Bill Godden
as Sam
Robert S. Young
as James
Bryan Epsom
as Baker
Geoffrey Best
as Watson
Robert Cheetham
as Ken
Surya Patel
as Doctor
Elsa
as Lion Cub/Lioness (uncredited)
