Mighty Joe Young

In 1937, eight-year-old Jill Young (Lora Lee Michel) is living with her father on his ranch in Tanganyika Territory, Africa. Twelve years later, Max O'Hara (Robert Armstrong) and sidekick Gregg (Ben Johnson) are on a trip to Africa looking for animals to headline in their new Hollywood nightclub. Joe Young, now 12 feet (3.7 m) tall and weighing 2,000 pounds (910 kg) tall, goes on a rampage. Joe and Gregg devise a plan to get Joe out of California using a moving van, then a cargo ship.