The Jungle Book

IMDb link: 0034928
IMDb rating: 6.7 (5,061 votes)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Family
Director: Zoltan Korda
Cast: Sabu, Frank Puglia, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen and others

Release date: 3 Apr 1942
Release year: 1942
Runtime: 108 minutes
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Keywords: india, jungle, feral child, tiger, animal human communication, surrogate family, lost city, based on novel, wild boy, law

Plot:

Teenaged Mowgli, who was raised by wolves, appears in a village in India and is adopted by Messua. Mowgli learns human language and some human ways quickly, though keeping jungle ideas. Influential Merchant Buldeo is bigoted against 'beasts' including Mowgli; not so Buldeo's pretty daughter, whom Mowgli takes on a jungle tour where they find a treasure, setting the evil of human greed in motion.

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