Joseph kessel biography lion film

1962 film directed by Jack Cardiff

The Lion is a 1962 British adventure film in CinemaScope directed by Jack Cardiff, starring William Holden and Trevor Howard.

What is the movie the lion with william holden about

Filmed on location in Kenya and Uganda and on a property in Kenya co-owned by Holden, the Mount Kenya Safari Club.^[1]

The film is based on the novel The Lion by the French author Joseph Kessel.

The film had its World Premiere at the Leicester Square Theatre in London's West End on 26 July 1962.^[2]

Plot

Successful American lawyer Robert Hayward is in Kenya because his ex-wife Christine is having problems with their eleven-year-old daughter Tina, with whom he has had no contact for many years.

Tina, who has a great affinity with Africa, its customs and its wildlife, initially resents her father, feeling he had abandoned her.

Christine has remarried and her new husband John Bullit, a former big-game hunter, now manages a large Kenyan animal preserve.^[3] Tina