The image presents a hint of the twisting, snake-like plot that is to come.On the banks of a tropical Amazon river following a year""s snake-hunting expedition [in a primordial jungle cartoonishly representing the Biblical Garden of Eden] funded by the Pike fortune, Charles Pike (Henry Fonda), a serious amateur ophiologist (snake-expert), is given a wooden box by Professor Jones (Reginald Sheffield) before he boards a motor launch.But he is quickly amused and congratulates his son (and shakes his hand) after viewing his quarreling rival in the water.The lonely, self-destructive and pathetic Rink mumbled, sobbed and ultimately collapsed in the empty banquet room, after rambling about his unrequited, covetous love for Leslie.After looking carefully in all directions, the young disheveled man walked off on his own, and then ran down the block o his parked Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III convertible - a complete and unexpected surprise.