The read
Critics rate it 33 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 33 points higher than audiences do.
15 audience votes
Key crew
- Rowland V. LeeDirector
- Melville BakerWriter
- Jack KirklandWriter
- Dan TotherohScreenplay
- Louise LongScreenplay
- Rowland V. LeeScreenplay
- Peter BrunelliOriginal Music Composer
- Louis De FrancescoOriginal Music Composer
- Hugo FriedhoferOriginal Music Composer
- J.S. ZamecnikOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Loretta YoungEve
- Gene RaymondZani
- O. P. HeggieDr. Grunbaum
- Wally AlbrightPaul Vandor
- Paul FixHeinie
- Murray KinnellGarbosh
- Ruth WarrenKatrina
- Roy StewartKarl
- Frances RichElsie
- Niles WelchMr. Vandor
- Lucille WardMiss Murst
- Dorothy LibaireRosita
Stills
Themes
budapest, hungaryzooromanceorphanpre-code