Doris (Anita Page) thinks that Gordon (Charles Starrett) is responsible for a crime for which her brother is serving time in prison. With the help of a newspaper reporter, they are bringing Gordon back to the States for a trial but their plans are interrupted when they are shipwrecked on an island off the African coast. Now that is an odd island...and seems to have all manor of African wildlife...hippos, lions, chimps and many more animals you really would not expect to see together there. What also is unexpected is Gordon...over time, he seems like a very decent sort and Doris' resolve to bring him back to stand trial seems to wane. What's next? And, do the couple stand a chance at happiness together??
Like too many movies of the era, this one is liberally peppered with stock footage of animals that is obviously stock footage and doesn't fit well into the movie. Surprisingly, there's a scene where Gordon have a knife fight with a lion and it really appears as if they filmed it with a real, live lion. I did find it hilarious, however, that Gordon rather easily killed the adult male lion...and only came away with some very minor scratches! Even the most macho man alive could never hope to fair so well against a lion!!
As for the acting, much of it is pretty bad BUT somehow tiny Chadwick Productions was able to secure the services of Anita Page (a top actress of the late 20s and early 30s) and Starrett...who wasn't yet a big star but who was a star nonetheless. It made for an odd blend of good and bad seeing them acting with B-movie quality (at best) actors.
Overall, the story is pretty good but the use of stock footage is clumsy (particularly the ship near the end of the film) and the story, at times, cheap and ordinary...at best.
