On the Trail of the Tigress Filming Locations

Pidetta, a notorious French woman and leader of one of Paris' worst gangs of crooks, lives in a beautiful chateau which contains an underground palace. She reads in the papers of the arrival at the best hotel of Betty Hoffman, her mother and fiancé, an American millionaire. She decides to make Betty her next victim. Being well known in French society, it is an easy matter for Pidetta to make the friendship of the American heiress, who soon learns to like the refined French woman. In Pidetta's underground palace there is a man, a weak dope fiend, who was once Pidetta's admirer. Through her evil plans she soon wrecked his manhood and reduced him to be her abject slave. Pidetta confides her plans to Pierre, the dope fiend, and forces him to do as she says. One day Pidetta comes to the hotel for Betty and takes her riding. They enter the woods and visit the grounds of the chateau. Betty's natural curiosity leads her about the grounds of the place and the result is that she is suddenly pounced upon and gagged and bound. Pidetta goes out on the road again, and that evening when Paul, Betty's fiancé, becomes uneasy because of her absence, he starts out to find her. He finds Pidetta lying on the ground by her car and when he raises her up she feigns faintness and tells him how they were attacked and Betty was carried away by two strangers. Paul takes Pidetta into her chateau and after summoning the servant to attend her he rushes out and back to the hotel to notify the police of Betty's disappearance, not knowing that Betty is being held a prisoner beneath the chateau which he is in. Pidetta forces Betty to write a note to her mother, demanding $10,000 to be given to a man at a certain place or time, or else she will be killed. The note is sent to the hotel by Pierre, who disappears. The mother, Paul and the detectives, who have been summoned, realize that the money must be delivered or the threat to kill Betty may be carried out. Consequently the next day the money is brought to the given place, but the crook escapes before the detectives get him. The money arrives, but Pidetta does not fulfill her promise to allow Betty to return home, for she realizes that her chateau will be discovered. One day Pierre, touched by the pleadings of Betty, determines to go to Betty's mother and tell here where Betty is hidden. Detectives are assigned to go with Pierre who leads them through the secret tunnels. Pidetta, having seen through her periscope their arrival automatically opens the cages of the lions and tigers, and the men are forced to battle their way through the ferocious animals, and thus follow Pidetta and her gang. Pidetta and the gang, carrying Betty, arrive in the last underground room. They throw Betty upon the floor and disappear into the stone pillars by secret doors. The detectives rush into the room and bar the door in time to keep the tigers out. Paul rushes to Betty and releases her. They all realize that there is one way of escape, so, cautiously, they open the door to allow the hungry animals to leap into the room past them, and then quick as a flash they spring through the door and bar it after them. Thus they escape from the chateau with Betty. Pidetta and her gang start to come from the stone pillars, and are terrified to see the animals in the room. They are left to fate; to starve to death in the pillars, or come out and be torn to pieces by the lions and tigers.