7th episode of the 20th Century Fox produced for ABC TV series Follow the Sun, second one directed by Francis D. Lyon (South Seas Adventure) and first written by the first producer of this series Anthony Wilson (Banacek).
Paul (Brett Halsey, Desire in the Dust), one of the two Honolulu freelance magazine writers of the series, gets a new potential sensational scoop: the famous writer Henry Dana Jackson (David McLean, Tate) should not be dead but hidden somewhere in New Guinea, continuing to write while taking the name of T. R. Conlon (Michael Pate, Green Mansions). As Paul approaches Henry's widow Margaret (Patricia Owens, Seven Women from Hell), she is at first reluctant, but as they share the same doubts, they go together to Port Moresby, capital of the Australian territories of Papua and New Guinea, where they are welcomed by the custom officer Mayhew (Harold Gould, The Yellow Canary).
There, Paul and Margaret learn that Conlon lives in the wild interior of the north, near Yamu in the Madang province, "the most primitive and dangerous area on the globe", a "hard, inaccessible and dangerous bush country", where "murder is a ritual for the tribes". As they arrive by plane at Yamu, the territorial officer Cooper (Guy Doleman, The Ipcress File) gives them for guide the rough Oscar (Alan Dexter, Days of our Lives), who'll conduct them deep into the highlands.
Will they manage to get through the impenetrable jungle and its dangers? Will they succeed in finding the mysterious Conlon? And should Conlon be really the writer Henry still alive? This small TV series episode is shot in Los Angeles studio, all the exteriors and Papuan crowd scenes being taken from the marvelous pictures of the Australian drama Walk into Paradise.
