A Tiger Walks (1964)

Storyline

A tiger escapes from a circus truck as it passes by a small town, and hides itself in the surrounding woods. A Tiger Walks, the 1964 Norman Tokar Walt Disney family feline cat tiger melodrama (“A young girl’s faith…A town’s raw courage… against a frightened tiger on the loose!”; “On silent footsteps a great cat stalks the streets… And a young girl matches fear with simple courage!”; “A frightened tiger prowls the shadows”; “A town trembles as somewhere in the fog a tiger walks”; “Based on the book by Ian Niall”; “A young girl matches fear with courage, as… A TIGER PROWLS THE STREETS!”; about a girl who tries to save an escaped tiger from being killed by capturing it and giving it to the zoo.) starring Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Pamela Franklin (the rare case of a child actress who successfully remained in movies throughout her teen years, and had success as an adult as well, and she retired in the 1980s to raise her children, so apparently she is successful in her private life as well!), Sabu Dastagir (billed simply as “Sabu”, as he was in all his movies; most famous as the star of the 1940 version of “The Thief of Bagdad”), Edward Andrews, Una Merkel, and Peter Brown