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

[2] 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.

There is tension between the adults because Christine left Hayward for Bullitt, having become "bewitched" by the beauty of Kenya and the wild, free lifestyle of the African bush.

Christine is alarmed that Tina is likewise "bewitched" by the wild lifestyle Bullitt encourages, and fears her daughter's development is endangered by having no contact with modern society.

Hayward earns Tina's respect when he witnesses this encounter without panicking but she fails to realize that her father now shares her mother's alarm over her dangerous lifestyle.

Bullitt further emphasises the danger of the African bush by taking Hayward with him, Christine and Tina on a reckless jeep trip, needlessly harassing enraged wild elephants, from which they only narrowly escape.