Turok: Lord of the Jungle: Welcome to the Jungle

Turok: Lord of the Jungle: Welcome to the Jungle is the first film in the Turok: Lord of the Jungle franchise. The film follows a man named Turok who was raised in the jungles of a country called Baladora by apes and eventually meets a young woman who falls in love with. He also tries to foil the hunting plan of a cruel game hunter who wants to hunt his troop of apes.

## Plot

In 1885, in the jungle of a country called Baladora, a troop of Gorillas lead by a silverback named Tublat were relaxing and grooming each other until a thunderstorm hits causing the them to take shelter. Meanwhile Tublat's mate Teeka protects their offspring until they were attacked by a male Lion named Sabor who pursues the female ape until he kills it with his claws and teeth.

Elsewhere upon the coastlines of Baladora a ship full of passengers gets wrecked by a hurricane caused by the storm, leaving a married couple and their baby alive. They build a raft and arrives on Baladora's shores bringing along broken wood from the ship to build a treehouse in the jungle. After building the treehouse somedays later the baby's mother died of malaria and his father grieves over her death until he was confronted by Sabor. The ferocious Lion prepares to attack the man whom he grabs his pistol to shot at him. However Sabor pounces on him and slaughters him using his paws before leaving unaware of the child's presents.

Not too long after Sabor left after killing the man, Tublat and his troop investigates the treehouse and found the corpse of the baby's father. Teeka hears the baby's cries and looks inside the crib and finds him. She takes him out of the crib and raises him as her and Tublat's own child while some of the Gorillas of the troop play around in the treehouse with one of them playing with pistol that the baby's died father tried to use against Sabor. It throws the gun on the floor making a gunshot sound causing the troop member to retreat into the jungle. When Teeka took the baby into jungle, he was then named Turok and treat him as if he was one of the apes' own kind.

Over the years Turok grows up among the gorillas and learned to find food within the jungle while playing his gorilla cousins Kerchak and Tar-Gash. Eventually he befriend a young Elephant calf who lives with a herd of Elephants named Tandor and rides him. He learns how to swings on vines and becomes friends to a male Chimpanzee named Nkima. Eventually he made and started to use a hunting knife so he would defend his family from any predators. Eventually he discovers his parent's treehouse and became aware of what he really is. Eventually he confronts Sabor and engage in a fight with it ending by Turok killed the lion with his dagger and lets out a primal scream.

Years later a group of women lead by a led by a professor of zoology named Arthur Summerlee whom have came from Great Britain goes on a safari in Baladora's jungles to study the animals that lives there such as Sloths hanging on a tree, Parrots sitting on tree branches, and Monkeys grooming themselves. One of the women of the group was Arthur's daughter Elizabeth who is the fiancee of a big game hunter named Clayton Pelt. While she was exploring the jungle's lush enviornment Elizabeth became separated from the rest of the group and gets lost. She wanders through Baladora's dense rainforest looking for her safari group unbenknownst to her that she was being stalked by a Tiger that was out hunting for food within the enviornment. Elizabeth spotted the tiger and gets chased and attacked by the big cat until she was saved by Turok who was now a full grown jungle man and wrestles the tiger with his bare hands before it runs off.

She didn't know who he was until she finally believes that Turok has never seen another human before. He rushes back to the jungle when Elizabeth was found by her fiancee Clayton who was out hunting animals to add to his trophy collection using his rifle. He follows them to Barsoom, Baladora's captial city that was under the command of the British empire in the hopes to win the heart of the woman he met. He spots Elizabeth looking out a window from a palace in the city. Turok tries to get to her until he bumped into a british soldier and then pushes him which causes the solider to alert the troops that he spotted an intruder.

He reaches the palace where he found Elizabeth until he was finally arrested by the british troops and was put into a dungeon cell. Elizabeth tells her father that the jungle man that intruded the palace was the same one who rescued her from a tiger. They visit the cell that Turok was in and he says his name with Professor Summerlee amazed to see that he was a man with little communication skills and could speak to animals. They release him from the cell and they begins to teach him how to be a human and teaches him how to speak. After weeks of learning the human culture and language, Turok tells Elizabeth and her father that he lives with a troop of gorillas somewhere deep in the jungle which Clayton Pelt eavesdrops on.

She eventually even teaches Turok how to wallz and the two begin to build a love relationship with each other much to Clayton's jealousy. Later that night in Barsoom he mets up with his men and develops a plan to hunt the troop of gorillas that Turok live amongst. Later Turok and Clayton have a converation about Turok's life with the gorillas while heading into a room full of hunting trophy heads of animals much to Turok's shock as seeing how those poor animals have suffered the cruelty that mankind possess. The next night a gala was hosted by Colonel Samuel Blumburtt, a colonel for the British army. Turok meets Elizabeth's friend Monique LaBouche, a french aristocrat who lives in a mansion in France.

He and Elizabeth begins to dance on the dance floor as Clayton observes them not too far away. Clayton congratulates them for their romantic wallz with them thanking him for it. Colonel Samuel makes an announcement that congratulate the professor's daughter and Clayton Pelt on their engagment which devastates Turok. As he walks away Clayton's rudely pushes until he falls on the table of food which shocks Elizabeth dearly and causes Turok to run away into the jungle. Elizabeth calls off her engagment to Clayton as she prefers to return to London much to her devastation so she knows she loves Turok very much.

The next day Elizabeth and her father prepares to return to England much to Clayton's shock as she was leaving the country. Back in the jungle with his ape family Turok was resting while Tublat feasts on bamboo until they spot Clayton's men traveling through the jungle hunting for Gorillas which frightens many of the apes such as Tar-Gash and his brother. Turok was then ambushed by the men and held captive by them until he escapes. Meanwhile as Professor Summerlee and his daughter were riding on the carriage that would take them to the ship that leave for England, they were attacked by Clayton's men and took them hostage. Knowing that Elizabeth and her father were in great danger, Turok goes to rescue them the help of Tublat, Turok's gorilla cousins, and Nkima as he alerts all the animals leaving within Baladora's wilderness.

As Clayton and his men continue searching for the gorilla troop, they hear something crashing through the jungle until suddenly came a whole herd of elephants called upon Turok charges at Clayton and the men and attacks them using their massive bodies, trunks, and tusks. Along with the elephants were other animals such as a group of Rhinos which also attacks them with one them charging at one of them and hurls him into the air, as well as herds of zebras and wildebeests that stampedes through the men as they retreat. One of the men tries to shoot his gun at one of the elephants but the pachyderm swings it's trunk forward and kills him with it's massive feet. Some other animals help out in the battle with some of Clayton's men heading towards the streams of the river where Crocodiles attack them and one of the men tries to shoot them until he was killed by a Hippopotamus. Packs of Wild Dogs, Jackals, and Hyenas and several big cats such as Jaguars, Tigers, Panthers, and Leopards also fight off the men as Turok fights and kills the men with and his cousins, Nkima, and Tublat's help when he was sudden confronted by a Lion who helps him track down Clayton as he rescued Elizabeth and Professor Summerlee from the men.

Clayton scours the jungle where he finally found the gorilla nesting site where behind him came Turok and the Lion and the two men engage in a terrific battle until Turok defeats him as Clayton retreat. Following the battle Elizabeth and Turok gave a romantic kiss to each other as she and her father have decided to live in Baladora with Turok. Many the surviving men of Clayton Pelt were imprisoned by the British army for their treachery. Both Turok and Elizabeth eventually marries each other and found and repaired a treehouse in the jungle, the same one where Turok was raised at when he was a baby. They made the treehouse their new home as Elizabeth and her father begin their new life in Baladora.