White, aren’t they all, big game hunter Tom Bruton,Don Harvey, is on a mission or job to track down and find the grandson of a multi millionaire back in the states-USA-who’s been missing in the African jungles since his parents were killed by an attack by local natives headhunter some 15 years ago. As it turns out the missing boy now a teenager turns out to be this Polynesian looking and sporting what looks like an Elvis Presley hairstyle, some five years before the world ever herd of Elivs,the vine swinging jungle boy Tawa played by a youthful and undernourished looking 32 year old Robert Cabal: Who was to star in 115 episodes in the TV “Rawhide” series as cowboy Hay Soos. It’s Tawa’s existence that’s being kept secret by old man Trader Kirk, Forrest Taylor, who feels that civilization will corrupt his clean, of pollution and food additives, and peaceful life that the jungle provides for him. It’s when Burton finally tracks down Tawa he also brings along a 450 pound Bengal Tiger that he captured back in India and is planning to give to a zoo in the US as a gift.
The mistake that Burton made is leaving the killer tiger in a flimsy bamboo cage unattended that has the lovable as well as mischievous chimp Tamba, played by Tamba himself, release into the wild who in return causes havoc all around his jungle neighborhood. We soon get to see reels of stock footage of the escaped tiger in action attacking and killing most of the local wildlife-panthers wild buffalo gorillas and pythons- until the killer cat is confronted by his former captor big game hunter, who’s recovering from a serious bout of jungle fever, Tom Burton.
With Burton’s high powered rifle seeming to have no effect on the tiger at all it’s now Burton not the big cat that is about to face extinction. That’s until 98 pound weakling looking Tawa, who seemed to have pumped himself up by eating a diet of bananas and mango’s, swings into action and with his what looks like boys scout knife puts the 450 pound of ferocious and murderous striped terror away! It’s later that Tom Burton find out the reason that Trader Kirk was so protective of jungle boy Tawa and it really had nothing at all to do from keeping him free of what civilization can do in getting him by having Tawa live on junk food as well as fluoridated water. He’s in fact Trader Kirk’s grandson and has every right to have him live with him even more then his grandfather, who never met him, back in the states since he brought him up since infancy!
