While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.

The motion picture is Chaney's penultimate film without dialogue and the last of his collaborations with director Tod Browning.

[2] Tiger Haynes traps wild animals for a living and bears the scars of his dangerous occupation on his face.

When he returns to the city of Vien-Tien from his latest foray in the jungle, Toyo tells him that she and Bobby Bailey, the son of an American circus owner (one of Tiger's best customers), have fallen in love and are engaged.

Tiger secretly opens the cage of an old gorilla who still remembers being mistreated by De Sylva long ago.