The Last Lion is a 1972 South African action film directed by Elmo De Witt and starring Jack Hawkins, Karen Spies and Dawid Van Der Walt.

[3] Ryk Mannering, a terminally ill American millionaire, goes to Africa on a final hunting expedition to track down and shoot a male lion.

Mannering hires a private doctor to keep him alive, and pays a local hunter to track down the lion.

[5] The film was based on a 1921 novel Uit oerwoud en vlakte by South African author Sangiro (a pen name for Andries Albertus Pienaar (1894 - 1979).

The novel had been the subject of a plagiarism action by German author Frits Bronsart von Schellendorf.