An Elephant Called Slowly (1969) is a Morning Star Productions Ltd. feature film starring Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna as themselves in a story about the couple's real-life adventures with three young African elephants while house-sitting in Kenya. George Adamson (of Born Free), makes an appearance as himself. The soundtrack features several well-known musical numbers by Bert Kaempfert. The film was written by Travers and director James Hill...
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An Elephant Called Slowly
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James Hill
James ("Jimmy") Hill (1 August 1919 - 7 October 1994) was a British film and television director, screenwriter and producer whose career spanned 46 years from 1937-1983, best remembered for his documentaries and short subjects such as Giuseppina and The Home Made Car, and as director of the...
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