The most popularly remembered however is surely Walt Disney's RIKKI-TIKKI-TAVI, which featured the voices of Orson Welles and Juneįoray.
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(Bugs Bunny / HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS)'s 1975 animated TV special Next 50-odd years, with the best of the lot arguably being Chuck Jones Other versions of Kipling's JUNGLE BOOK stories would appear over the Musical score by the legendary Miklos Rozsa (BEN-HUR, THIEF OF BAGDAD). Sabu (THE THIEF OF BAGDAD, ARABIAN NIGHTS) as Mowgli, it received fourĪcademy Award nominations, including one for it's energetic and colorful Featuring a performance by beloved India born actor Soon-to-be classic "feral child" story, TARZAN OF THE APES in 1912.įilmic adaptation of THE JUNGLE BOOK was 1942's Technicolor adventureĬourtesy of the Korda Brothers, Zoltan & Alexander (THE FOURįEATHERS, SAHARA). Kipling's "raised by animals" narrative hook in the creation of his own Oh, and take note English Lit fans - Edgar Rice Burroughs would borrow
Kipling publishedĪnother collection of stories in 1895 under the title THE SECOND JUNGLEīOOK - this time with eight stories (and attendant poems) and five of which featured Mowgli as the central protagonist. Mowgli's talents are born of the fact that as a lost child he was Superhuman ability to hunt and track, and the Ranger later discovers Stand-alone short story "In The Rukh" - wherein as an adult Mowgli isĪsked by a British forestry Ranger to join him because of his near Tiger "Shere Khan" and who was first introduced one year prior in Kipling's To that story, three of the tales concerned the feral child Mowgli: raised by wolves, brother to all jungle animals (including the slothīear "Baloo" and panther "Bagheera") primary prey of the fearsome Seven stories - each followed by a clever poem thematically linked Published as a collection in 1894, it was written (mostĭon't realize) not in India, but whilst Kipling resided in Vermont, U.S.A., and written as a gift for his daughter Josephine, who'd passĪway at the age of six a few short years later. WOULD BE KING and GUNGA DIN), THE JUNGLE BOOK would emerge as his most The author of numerous high adventure stories and poems (among them THE MAN WHO Then later as a young adult returned to work in the beloved nation asĪssistant editor of the newspaper "The Civil & Military Gazette". Say "for worse") as the king of the revisionist / "rebooted" classic yarn.īorn in Bombay, India, Nobel Prize winningĪuthor, Rudyard Kipling, spent the first six years of his life there, Sommers, who'd forever become known (some say "for the better" others "A" list star out of a young up-and-coming director named Stephen Office take, and thus would, beforehand, be factored into it's initialĪnd, oh yes, THE JUNGLE BOOK would also make an "ancillary" revenue, but a major part of it's overall worldwide box Wherein a movie's later home video release would no longer be considered One of the first features to cause a film finance paradigm shift Most importantly (at least as far as Hollywood bookkeeping is concerned) Titles, and when the ubiquitous VHS rental parlor on every other streetĬorner was becoming THE primary filmic delivery choice for manyįamilies, THE JUNGLE BOOK would eventually become a hit and, perhaps Success of it's released-earlier-in-the-year super smash THE LION KING.Īt a time however when home video, in the form of "sell through" On Rotten Tomatoes), but was initially considered a box-officeĭisappointment for the studio at the time riding high on the Wowed critics (it still holds an impressive aggregate 92% "Fresh" rating Rip roaring old school INDIANA JONES-like "boy's own" adventure which The film's 2002 DVD release was it's only ever DVD issue, and that it'sīeen out of print since, making it a "hard to obtain" title nowįetching prices upwards to $200 on and other seller outlets.ĭebuting Christmas day 1994, RUDYARD KIPLING'S "THE JUNGLE BOOK" was a It's been 20 years since RUDYARD KIPLING'S "THE JUNGLE BOOK" - theĭisney released pulp adventure-style, live action revisionist take onĪuthor Rudyard Kipling's beloved "Mowgli" stories. Love to return "to the vaults" to relive old faves. Saved those DVDs, but old school VHS tapes / players and DVD burner and For this reason, in this age of streaming, we not only Many which DID have long since gone out of print and become high pricedĬollectibles. In fact some have never been released in ANY home video format. Reasons) have yet to make the leap to NetFlix, Hulu, Blu-ray or evenĭVD. Streaming is wonderful, but many cinematic gems (for various
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