Plot Summary:Based on a true story, this film tells of an expedition into the Amazon jungle to find an archaeologist who had vanished three years previously. They run into a tribe of warlike headhunters, who are determined to add the expedition members' heads to their collection (in the real story, the archaeologist was found to have been murdered by a tribe of Brazilian headhunters).
據《魯迅日記》,魯迅曾于1935年3月11日,同王蘊如,阿菩(周晔)、周建人、許廣平、周海嬰同至新光大戲院觀此片。當時譯名爲《獸國尋尸記》。