The Jungle Book

A faithful adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic tale of Mowgoli the jungle boy who is raised by wolves…

• Director:Stephen Sommers
• Genre:Adventure / Family / Romance

Cast

Phil Harris : Baloo (voice)
Sebastian Cabot :. Bagheera (voice)
Bruce Reitherman : Mowgli (voice)
George Sanders : Shere Khan (voice)
Sterling Holloway : Kaa (voice)

In the Victorian period, Mowgli is the five-year-old son of a wilderness guide who accompanies his father on a hunting trip in the jungles of their native India and has Grey Brother as a pet wolf cub. Mowgli becomes close friends with a British girl named Katherine Anne “Kitty” Brydon, whose father, Colonel Geoffrey Brydon, commissioned the hunt. When Shere Khan attacks the camp and kills Mowgli’s father, the boy and the wolf are lost in the confusion and are left to fend for themselves. Bagheera finds them and leads Mowgli to the wolf pack. Mowgli is befriended by the animals of the jungle including Baloo the bear cub, and they develop an unspoken bond as the growing boy learns to survive. As a young adult still in the jungle, the Bandar-log steal the bracelet Kitty gave Mowgli. He follows them to the ruins of an overgrown and lost city, deep in the jungle where, he meets King Louie the orangutan, who he follows in to a chamber full of vast treasure. Louie wants to add the bracelet to the treasure, but agrees to give it back if Mowgli fights his friend, Kaa the anaconda and wins. Mowgli is pushed into the water by Kaa but Mowgli manages to defeat him with a jeweled dagger he found in the temple. Kaa flees, but is not killed. Louie returns him the bracelet.

A little later, Mowgli once again encounters Kitty, who still lives in India with her father and her arrogant and deceitful suitor, Captain William Boone. Kitty and Mowgli recognize each other, and while his powers of speech are rusty, Kitty reintroduces Mowgli to civilization with the help of Dr. Julius Plumford and Mowgli introduces Kitty to his friends in the jungle. However, after spending most of his life in the jungle, Mowgli does not feel at home among the rude and snobbish aristocrats who are friends with Kitty’s family. He falls in love with Kitty, but he concedes to his rival for her affections.

Meanwhile, Buldeo, one of Boone’s men, finds the jewelled dagger Mowgli used against Kaa, and they hatch a plan to get Mowgli to lead them to the treasure in Monkey City. After Mowgli refuses they attempt to capture him but fail thanks to Baloo’s intervention. Baloo is shot in the process and Mowgli rushes back to Kitty’s home to find Dr. Plumford however the butler informs him that Kitty and Plumford are going back to England. Mowgli finds Kitty and the others just as Boone’s men ambush and attack them. Geoffrey is shot and wounded, and abducted along with Kitty. Mowgli saves Plumford, and asks him to return the favour by helping Baloo. Mowgli catches up with Boone’s men, and agrees to escort them to Monkey City in exchange for Kitty and Geoffrey’s safety. Read more

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