Overview
Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from a tiger's attack, but is badly wounded himself. The girl, Chameli Brentwood, nurses him back to health and out of gratitude he marries her, ignoring the fact that he has a fiancée, Harriet Halehurst (Eva Novak), back home.
Director and cast
- Jack Holt as Sam Sandell
- Eva Novak as Harriet Halehurst
- George Periolat as Henry Frazer Halehurst
- Bertram Grassby as Raj Singh
- Aileen Pringle as Chameli Brentwood
- Carl Stockdale as Sathoo Ram
- Frank Butler as Inspector George Malvin
- George Field as Prince
- Evelyn Selbie as Azun
- Frederick Vroom as Colonel Byng
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