**SPOILERS** Pretty and determined lady anthropologist Dr. Linda Roberts, Angela Greene, just survived a deadly hippo attack that wiped out her entire expedition only to be spotted and attacked by a ferocious and hungry black leopard. Luckily for Linda the big cat is killed by the jungle man himself "Jungle Jim", Johnny Weissmuller, who came both running and swimming to her rescue.
Mr."Jim" or James Bradley which is actually "Jungle Jim's" real name, taken from the newspaper comic strip where the character originated from in the late 1930's, is not at all willing to help Linda find the forbidden land beyond the "Valley of the Elephant". It's there where the legendary "Giant People" are said to be inhabitants of. Linda is certain that the "Giant People" are the illusive "Missing Link" that can finally connect man to the world of primates.
What makes Jim change his mind is when he learns that a number of native ivory poachers together with Americans Doc. Edwards, William Tanner, and his girlfriend Denise, Jean Willes, are also looking for the secret land of the "Giant People"! Not for reasons of research in order to prove Darwin's' theory of Evolution but to trap all the elephants in the area and slaughter them for their precious ivory tusks!
"Jungle Jim" in trying to stop Doc & Danise together with their partner in crime the native Chief Zulu, Frederick Berest, from corralling the elephants gets himself into far more trouble then even he ever expected to be in. Jim gets into a life and death struggle with one of the "Giant People", the seven foot tall Clem Ericson, who was held together with his mate, the over six foot tall Irmgard Helen H. Raschke, captive by Doc & Denise. It's in his fight with he "Giant Man", who had Jim on the ropes, that Jim is saved by his pet monkey Tamba who brains the big guy with a rock. Jim is later knocked out could, from behind, by Doc who together with Denise framed Jim for a murder that he was totally Innocent of! That of Fred Lewis, George Eldridge, who in attempting to stop both Doc and Denise from carrying their dastardly plan ended up getting killed, by Doc, for his treat to report them to the local authorities.
Jim now a wanted man in the Fred Lewis murder has to not only prove his innocence, before he's tracked down and shot by the local native police, but at the same time stop Doc & Denise, with the help of Chief Zulu and his tribesmen,from wiping out, in order to get their hands on their ivory tusks, the entire local elephant population!
This turns out to be a job far too big for "Jungle Jim" to handle himself. But with the help of the now on the loose "Giant Man" and his pet chimpanzee Tamba and of course the threatened with extinction elephants themselves "Jungle Jim" does managed to pull it all-and thus save the day- off!
Mr."Jim" or James Bradley which is actually "Jungle Jim's" real name, taken from the newspaper comic strip where the character originated from in the late 1930's, is not at all willing to help Linda find the forbidden land beyond the "Valley of the Elephant". It's there where the legendary "Giant People" are said to be inhabitants of. Linda is certain that the "Giant People" are the illusive "Missing Link" that can finally connect man to the world of primates.
What makes Jim change his mind is when he learns that a number of native ivory poachers together with Americans Doc. Edwards, William Tanner, and his girlfriend Denise, Jean Willes, are also looking for the secret land of the "Giant People"! Not for reasons of research in order to prove Darwin's' theory of Evolution but to trap all the elephants in the area and slaughter them for their precious ivory tusks!
"Jungle Jim" in trying to stop Doc & Danise together with their partner in crime the native Chief Zulu, Frederick Berest, from corralling the elephants gets himself into far more trouble then even he ever expected to be in. Jim gets into a life and death struggle with one of the "Giant People", the seven foot tall Clem Ericson, who was held together with his mate, the over six foot tall Irmgard Helen H. Raschke, captive by Doc & Denise. It's in his fight with he "Giant Man", who had Jim on the ropes, that Jim is saved by his pet monkey Tamba who brains the big guy with a rock. Jim is later knocked out could, from behind, by Doc who together with Denise framed Jim for a murder that he was totally Innocent of! That of Fred Lewis, George Eldridge, who in attempting to stop both Doc and Denise from carrying their dastardly plan ended up getting killed, by Doc, for his treat to report them to the local authorities.
Jim now a wanted man in the Fred Lewis murder has to not only prove his innocence, before he's tracked down and shot by the local native police, but at the same time stop Doc & Denise, with the help of Chief Zulu and his tribesmen,from wiping out, in order to get their hands on their ivory tusks, the entire local elephant population!
This turns out to be a job far too big for "Jungle Jim" to handle himself. But with the help of the now on the loose "Giant Man" and his pet chimpanzee Tamba and of course the threatened with extinction elephants themselves "Jungle Jim" does managed to pull it all-and thus save the day- off!