The title and setting were taken from the book The Man-Eaters of Kumaon (1944) by Jim Corbett, a British hunter and adventurer born and raised in India. It was popular throughout the world because it told true stories of hair-raising encounters with man-eating tigers and leopards which preyed on Indian villagers by the hundreds, and which Corbett hunted and killed. With all those incredible adventures to draw on, Hollywood ignored the contents of the book and made up a tepid and insipid tale. It thrilled nobody and the movie flopped.
This is director Byron Haskin's first sound film, although he did uncredited direction five years earlier for the Warner Bros. Humphrey Bogart film "Action in the North Atlantic" (1943).