In Africa to collect specimens for zoos Roger and Penny Reed, their daughter Eleanor and her fiancé Nevin Potter are led by the corrupt guide Olaf Punch who is in the pay of the local ruler Ben Alleu Bey. Tarzan rescues Eleanor when she becomes trapped in a mud pit. No one will believe her story of a white man who came to her rescue however. When a lioness tries to free her captured cubs, Tarzan is again forced to save Eleanor and then also frees the animals that have so far been captured. Punch has been payed to deliver Eleanor to Ben Alleu Bey to get the girl for him and when she is taken captive by tribesmen loyal to Alleu Bey, Tarzan has to save her one last time.