Lost City Of The Jungle

Sinister Sir Eric Hazarias, arch warmonger, leads an expedition into Pendrang in search of meteorium 245, the only practical defense against the atomic bomb.

A plane piloted by Tal Shan (keye Luke), Pendrang native, locates the stranded Rod Stanton and Marjorie Elmore and the two are taken to Zalabar, capitol of Pendrang. Guided by a tip that two of Sir Eric's henchmen plan to dynamite the Sacred Pool in search of the Lost City, Rod and Tal Shan are swept to the lake's bottom as it is suddenly blasted.

Rod Stanton dives into the dynamited pool of Light and rescues Tal Shan from drowning. Dr. Elmore, his daughter, Marjorie, and his assistant, Grebb, visit the scene in search of the Lost City. During the search, Dr. Elmore finds a tablet, bearing the hieroglyphics of the Glowing Goddess.

Efforts to destroy Rod Stanton and Tal Shan in the Pendrang temple fail, as the pair flee at the first rumblings of the explosion. Rod returns to Sir Eric's headquarters and finds fingerprints of the archfiend. Sir Eric, incensed over Stanton's escape from the Pendrang Temple trap, informs the natives that the investigator destroyed their sacred shrine.

Rod Stanton is rescued from the lion's pit by his assistant Tal Shan. Discovering that a mysterious individual posing as Geoffrey London, is actually Sir Eric Hazarias, a warmonger, Rod informs Dr. Elmore who threatens to quit.

Sir Eric believes that Rod Stanton has been tossed into the blazing pit. Stanton's fall, however, is broken by a ledge where he discovers a tablet bearing mysterious hieroglyphics. Translated by Dr. Elmore, the hieroglyphics lead the way to the Tomb of the Glowing Goddess. Trapped in the tomb, Stanton is overcome by poisonous vapors.

Rod Stanton falls on the revolving pedestal of the Glowing Goddess and is carried to safety into another chamber of the tomb. Finding a tablet there, he delivers the stone to Dr. Elmore. The scientist's aid, Grebb, photograph's the hieroglyphics and treacherously turns the film over to Sir Eric.

Rod Stanton and Tal Shan, swim to shore after their motorboat sinks. Marjorie Elmore discloses that her father, Dr. Elmore has been kidnapped, probably by Sir Eric. Through a ruse, Marjorie conceals a dictograph in Sir Eric's room, but the instrument is discovered. Sir Eric uses the "plant" to persuade Stanton that Dr. Elmore is held captive at the House of Beggars.

Tal Shan enters the blazing House of Beggars to drag his American assistant, Rod Stanton to safety and the two begin a search for the missing Dr. Elmore held captive by Sir Eric on an abandoned schooner. While Rod and Tal Shan comb the jungle, Marjorie is also made a prisoner of the war-mongering leader.

Rod Stanton and Tal Shan board a schooner and save Marjorie Elmore from death before the mechanical firing Squad. Pendrang's ruler, Indra (helen Bennett), it is learned has half of a plaque showing the location of the Lost City of the Jungle. Told where the other half is hiding, a confederate transmits the information to Sir Eric.

Tal Shan rescues Rod Stanton from the booby-trapped chamber. The American investigator's adversaries obtain the plaque. Securing the other half-plaque from Indra, Sir Eric, in order to locate the Meteorium, schemes to have the Pendrang chief translate the pictographs. Stanton learns of the plan and is captured and sentenced to be executed on a crude native guillotine.

Indra's constables, accompanied by Marjorie Elmore rescue Rod Stanton from the guillotine. The tribal chief, however, is kidnapped by Sir Eric and is forced to translate the hieroglyphics which reveal the location of the Meteorium.

As the car carrying Rod Stanton and Tal Shan careens from the highway the pair leap to safety while Sir Eric's henchmen locate the chest containing Meteorium 245. Sir Eric Flees with Grebb and the valuable discovery, but the plane conveying the fiendish pair to the outside world disintegrates in mid-air when the chest is opened by Grebb during a struggle for its possession.