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"Defenseless in a Den of Beasts Finding love...with a girl so gentle, so sweet, that he protects her at the risk of his life."
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.
29 Cast Members
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)
Elspeth Dudgeon
Woman Whose Skunk Was Stolen (uncredited)
Margaret Hamilton
Assistant Matron for Orphans (uncredited)
Catherine Hayes
Woman (uncredited)
Perry Ivins
Ferenc (uncredited)
Ruth Marion
Freda (uncredited)
