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An Elephant Called Slowly: Directed by James Hill. With Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Vinay Inambar, Joab Collins. 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.
Sep 27, 2018 · In 1969, Born Free’s Co-Founders Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers starred in the film An Elephant Called Slowly with a two-year-old female elephant calf called Pole Pole. The film told the story of their adventures with three young elephants while house-sitting in Kenya.
Oct 17, 2023 · In 1969, Pole Pole starred in the film An Elephant Called Slowly with Dame Virginia McKenna and the late Bill Travers MBE. Snatched from the wild and subsequently gifted by the Kenyan government of the day to London Zoo, she was destroyed in the zoo’s elephant house, resulting in a huge public outcry.
Jun 19, 2021 · While making the movie, the McKenna/Travis couple caught on to the potential of wildlife and, like any other enterprising actor folk, tried to repeat the success with otters in A Ring of Bright Water and elephants in An Elephant called Slowly.
Peculiar possibly-faux documentary, like a family-friendly mondo film. 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.
- James Hill
1h 31m. Real-life British naturalists (Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers) befriend elephants and a neighbor's (George Adamson) lions in Kenya.
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sol- 16 July 2016. Keen to return to Africa, 'Born Free' actors Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna accept an invitation to mind a friend's rural property in Kenya but are surprised when a trio of elephants join them in this offbeat follow-up of sorts to the iconic 1966 hit.
