Christian the Lion - Full Ending

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Christian's story. Full ending and original soundtrack to the film "Christian, The Lion at World's End". Directed by Bill Travers,Commentary by Virgina McKenna, founders of the Born Free Foundation.

In 1969 a young Australian, John Rendall and his friend Ace Bourke, bought a small lion cub from Harrods pet department, which was then legal. 'Christian' was kept in the basement of a furniture shop on the Kings Road in Chelsea, the heart of the swinging sixties. Loved by all, the affectionate cub ate in a local restaurant, played in a nearby graveyard, but was growing fast...

A chance encounter with Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna led to a new life for Christian. He came to live in a huge enclosure and to sleep in a caravan at their Surrey home. Then in 1971 he was flown to Kenya, his ancestral home, and returned to the wild by lion-man George Adamson. Nine months later in 1972, John and Ace returned to Kora in Kenya. This clip is of their reunion at that time.

It was an emotional reunion: "He ran towards us, threw himself onto us, knocked us over and hugged us, with his paws on our shoulders."

John Rendall

See http://www.bornfree.org.uk for more about this story.

Christian the Lion is distributed by Beckmann Visual Publishing

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Christian the Lion - Full Ending

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  • 'Christian' the Lion........!

    Thankyou for this wonderful video !
    It means the world to me......you see, I'd first met my late husband at a teen summer camp, for all of 15 minutes......We'd lost complete track of each other, led nearly identical lives, then noticed each other after 30 yrs.....as he was my favourite customer at a Safeway where I worked & I was his favourite cashier. It was just a blessing from God that we found each other & remembered too.
    We married 4 mos later, together for only 3 yrs though, as he became very ill & passed to glory 3 days before our anniversary.
    Many thanks for this video !
    It says to me, that when I finally get called home to Glory, he'll remember me !!
    God Bless !

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    everyone hopes.

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  • I wish...

    I wish people were as friendly to each other like these lions...

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