Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true friends are the zoo's animals. When Zani meets Eve, a young orphan girl, they fall in love. To be together Eve must somehow escape from her strict orphan school. When she does she and Zani must hide overnight in the zoo - where everyone is looking to find them.
Cinematography
Stunning zoo-at-night shadows that look like noir before noir existed.
Acting
Loretta Young's luminous fragility against Gene Raymond's feral sweetness.
Director
Rowland V. Lee
Loretta Young
Eve
Gene Raymond
Zani
O. P. Heggie
Dr. Grunbaum
Wally Albright
Paul Vandor
Paul Fix
Heinie
Murray Kinnell
Garbosh
Ruth Warren
Katrina
Roy Stewart
Karl
Frances Rich
Elsie
Niles Welch
Mr. Vandor
Lucille Ward
Miss Murst
Dorothy Libaire
Rosita
Russ Powell
Toski
Joseph E. Bernard
Doctor Attending Chimpanzee (uncredited)
James P. Burtis
Kretz (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Real lions, tigers, and elephants were used—no fakes—making this a logistical nightmare that nearly killed the production budget.
This was Loretta Young's final pre-code film before the Hays Code cracked down; her sheer nightgown scene vanished for decades.
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