A live-action adaptation of the 1967 animated series of the same name, "George of the Jungle" centres around San Francisco heiress Ursula Stanhope, who meets the King of the Jungle, George (Fraser), after a trip to Uganda with her fiancé Lyle van de Groot. When Lyle is jailed for attempting to shoot George's "dog," aka an elephant named Shep, for ivory, Ursula falls in love with the kind-hearted George and evaluates giving up everything she knows for true love.