A Tiger Walks (1964)

A tiger escapes from a circus truck as it passes by a small town and hides itself in the surrounding woods This throws the town into a panic and everyone wants the animal killed immediately except for the daughter of the sheriff She wants to capture the tiger and put it in a zoo thereby saving the tigers life Her determination starts a nationwide campaign among children to raise the money to buy the tiger from the circus but first she her father and an Indian tiger trainer must find the tiger before the National Guard do who have orders to kill it on sight