Grounded

A Tiger Walks is a Disney epic that just plods along, following the spoor of many other movies cut from the same hairy pelt. When a mistreated Bengal tiger escapes from his trainer in a small town, folks begin to show their stripes. Cowards take cover. A greedy innkeeper jacks up her prices as hordes of callous reporters descend on the terrified community. A Governor who is up for re-election tries to make political hay by calling out the National Guard, and the boys go hunting a handsome trophy for the officers' mess. Only young Pamela Franklin, the sheriff's bright-eyed daughter, knows that Rajah is really a very decent sort, as tigers go.

Pamela makes a television appeal, and pretty soon youngsters all over America are sending in pennies and chanting the theme song of a "Save That Tiger" campaign. Once more, the idea is that kids and man-eaters can often teach grownups a thing or two. In this case, however, adults trapped into swallowing the message may turn savage. Unless, like Rajah, they have been shot full of tranquilizer pellets before the movie, they are apt to go straight home, snap at the dog, and give the cat his walking papers.

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