Jungle Book, aka Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, is an American color 1942 action/adventure film based on the Rudyard Kipling novel, The Jungle Book.
I'll show you the mysteries--the wonders of the jungle's savage heart!
Teenager 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.
Nominated for 4 Academy Awards, including Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color for the director's brother, Vincent Korda and creative partner Julia Heron.
Director: Zoltan Korda Producer: Alexander Korda Writers: Rudyard Kipling (novel) and Laurence Stallings (adaptation)
Original Music by Miklós Rózsa
Cast: Sabu... Mowgli Joseph Calleia... Buldeo John Qualen... The barber Frank Puglia... The pundit Rosemary DeCamp... Messua (as Rosemary De Camp) Patricia O'Rourke... Mahala Ralph Byrd... Durga John Mather... Rao Faith Brook... English girl Noble Johnson... Sikh
