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An expedition into the interior of Papua New Guinea comes across a tribe of ape-like people who may or may not be ancestors of early man. However, the influence of modern man is to have devastating effects upon these forgotten people.
Anthropolgist, Dr. Sybil Greame, has come to Papua New Guinea searching for bones from a species she thinks might represent a missing step in the evolution of humans from apes. Douglas Temple and Otto Kreps, a couple of local opportunists, are determined to go with her. They have discovered that native artifacts from the area where she is going are rich in valuable phosphors used in color TV tubes. They are worth $1000 per kilogram. They stage an "accident" that injures her technical expert, Bruce Spofford; they are the logical replacements. Once there, the pair not only find phosphor bearing rocks but skulls that satisfy "the missing link" characteristics. Dr. Greame thinks its a hoax until they discover the band of creatures they came from. Dubbed Tropis, they seem quite evolved - having language and the ability to quickly learn how to use tools. When Graeme notifies her backer, industrialist Vancruysen, he takes immediate steps to exploit them as cheap labor in his manufacturing empire. Temple objects to this. He takes a pregnant Tropi female out, Ottos constant companion. She gives birth to a dead baby. Temple claims he killed it to precipitate a sensational trial to determine if the Tropis are human or animal.
Burt Reynolds
Douglas Temple
Susan Clark
Dr. Sybil Greame
Roger C. Carmel
Otto Kreps
Paul Hubschmid
Vancruysen
Chips Rafferty
Father 'Pop' Dillingham
Alexander Knox
Buffington
Pat Suzuki
Topazia
Edward Fox
Bruce Spofford
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Eaton
William Marshall
Attorney General
Rhys Williams
Judge Draper
Mort Marshall
Dr. Figgins
Michael St. Clair
Tee Hee Lawrence
Booker Bradshaw
Smoot
John Kimberley
Epstein
James Henry Eldridge
District Officer
Totty Ames
Motel Manager
James Bacon
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