Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage of a gorilla named Katie which she is teaching to communicate through the use of sign language. When the owner of the gorilla takes her back to become a flea market freak Rick takes it upon himself to break Katie out and take her on an adventurous journey to get her out of the country.
as Rick Heller
as Margaret Heller
as Max Carr
as Lacey Carr
as Gus Charnley
as Walter Mallinson
as Sergeant Bo Markle
as Det. Lou Greenberg (as Tom Wilson)
as Bob the Paramedic
as Dan Woodley
as Judge Billings
as Ed Price
as Interpreter
as Gary James
as Donald Carr