The Lion Man

Revenge is sweet. In a tale adapted from the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel "The Lad and the Lion," this sweeping saga from 1936 begins in the Arabian desert as a British explorer and his expedition are massacred by an evil sheik. All, that is, except for hisyoung son, who is secretly whisked away and raised by a mystic. When he reaches adulthood, the son, played by Jon Hall, is now known as "El Lion." As he searches for the man who murdered his father, El Lion finds love, adventure and, ultimately, revengealong the way. Also starring Tom Adams, Kathleen Burke and Richard Carlyle.