"Samuel G. Engel's 'The Lion'" the credits proudly declare (so much for poor old Jack Cardiff who actually directed the thing). The only film ever made reflecting Bill Holden's real-life interest in hunting big game features young Pamela Franklin fresh from her role in 'The Innocents'.
Miss Franklin plays another unsettlingly polite young little girl this time at the centre of two bizarre triangle dramas, simultaneously coming between a lion called King and his mate, and Holden and Capucine (the latter playing a high maintenance cow who airily dismisses Africa as "nothing but primitives and animals".
The scenes with the animals themselves are skilfully shot and edited, but Malcolm Arnold, bless him, supplies a score better suited to an episode of 'Daktari'.
Miss Franklin plays another unsettlingly polite young little girl this time at the centre of two bizarre triangle dramas, simultaneously coming between a lion called King and his mate, and Holden and Capucine (the latter playing a high maintenance cow who airily dismisses Africa as "nothing but primitives and animals".
The scenes with the animals themselves are skilfully shot and edited, but Malcolm Arnold, bless him, supplies a score better suited to an episode of 'Daktari'.