Zoo in Budapest is a 1933 American Pre-Code romance/melodrama film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Loretta Young, Gene Raymond, O.P.

Gene Raymond, playing Zani, a young, mischievous man who has grown up only around the animals and the people that work and visit the zoo.

Loretta Young plays Eve, who is an orphan who only wants to escape her situation and be out in the real world.

Written by Melville Baker, Jack Kirkland, Dan Totheroh, Louise Long, and screenplay by Rowland V. Lee.

Flamboyant Zani (Gene Raymond) is a kindly young man who grew up entirely and works in the zoo in Budapest, Hungary.

Eve must somehow escape from her strict orphan school, since she is faced with the prospect of being forced to work as an indentured servant (more like a slave) until she grows up.

You meet a little boy named Paul, played by Wally Albright, who is with his harsh governess and all he wants to do is interact with the animals but he never gets the chance too.

Once receiving that message the girl jumps over the railing and into the pond giving Eve the distraction she needed to escape.

After all of this Zani overhears a couple talking about wanting to buy the fox at the zoo so the wife can turn it into a muff.

You see the boy run away and back into the zoo another way, and the officers close up the gates to get in, but the head of the Orphanage informs them that there is still someone in there that is lost, but they assure her that everyone is out.

After leading the officer astray Zani goes back to Eve and you find out they've cared for each other this entire time and the whistles were to let the other know they were near.

After having a moment of happiness Eve find Paul hiding and crying near the den, because he thinks since he ran away he is going to jail.

Paul escapes and keeps running until he gets to an area where there is a strange man locked in a cage, because he was put earlier that night by one of the zookeepers.

This makes the little boy start to sob, someone hears him and they recognize it coming from the tiger, lion, and elephant area.

You fast forward a little bit and Paul's father, Mr. Vandor, played by Niles Welch, is at the orphanage arranging with the head that Eve is under his protection for the next five years, but it is not going to matter because she is marrying Zani tomorrow and they will live on his estate and Zani will look after his animals.