No-holds-barred melodrama which never really exerts the right grip.

Walter Huston plays a wheelchair-bound despot in the middle of the jungle, manipulating the natives into controlled docility by showing them magic tricks while hatching a plan to murder the grown daughter of his rival. It largely takes place in one hut with razorwire dialogue rebounding around as perfect flavoring to the twisted plot. Definitely fun to watch, if only to imagine the aghast gapes some of the more outlandish costumes must have drawn when the extras strolled across the MGM backlot.