The World’s Greatest Athlete

A jungle boy (Jan-Michael Vincent) is exploited by a collegiate athletics department. John Amos, Tim Conway, Roscoe Lee Browne, Nancy Walker. Jane: Dayle Haddon. Robert Scheerer directed., This Disney farce stars Jan-Michael Vincent as a “wild boy” living off the land in the jungles of Africa. Vincent is discovered by coaches Tim Conway and John Amos. Cursed with a last-place college athletic line-up, Conway and Amos hope that Vincent will pull them out of their years-long slump., Children’s drama in which two failing athletics coaches on safari in Africa discover a boy in the jungle who runs faster than a gazelle. They go to elaborate and unscrupulous lengths to persuade him to return with them to America, where they enter him for track and field competitions. Though confident that he is unbeatable, they have not allowed for the effects of his godfather’s voodoo spells.