It co-starred Ed Hinton and William Tannen as the film's antagonists, Leopold and Nels Comstock, respectively.
The film centers on jungle roamer Weissmuller and his team racing against a few looters for a mystical treasure located in a demon-worshiping land.
Notorious looters Leopold (Hinton) and Nels Comstock (Tannen), along with their criminal crew, are looking to steal the Kirundi folks' treasures.
Jim is tipped off by a contact that his lover Sarabna (Vera M. Francis) is next in line to be sacrificed by the natives.
Johnny evacuates the local people and flees to safety with Blakely, Sarabna, and the fire demon Dixon.
Sam Katzman was in charge of production for Columbia Pictures, while George Plympton wrote the screenplay based on a story by Dwight Babcock.
[2] It was critiqued as a "silly jungle film" by the Motion Picture Herald, while the magazine Variety wrote that it was an "almost amateurish attempt at making a formula theme pay off".