John Huston's adventure-packed adaptation of Romain Gary's Prix Goncourt-winning novel takes a prescient look at an early eco-warrior (Trevor Howard) waging a battle to preserve the elephant herds of French Equatorial Africa. With the colonial government and bloodthirsty ivory hunters aligned against him he joins forces with a motley band of rebels - including a jovial but perpetually hammered ex-military man (Errol Flynn) and a world-weary bar girl (Juliette Greco) in a courageous effort to save the last wild things of this Earth.