Approved | 1h 48min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Family | 3 April 1942 (USA)
Original Title: Jungle Book
Alternate Title: Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book
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.
****This is NOT an animation.****
Director: Zoltan Korda
Writer: Laurence Stallings (adaptation) and Rudyard Kipling (novel)
Stars: Sabu, Joseph Calleia and John Qualen
