Mowgli follows her back to the British fort and is captured by Boone, but Kitty requests him to be freed and is taught by her and Dr. Plumford and her suitor, Captain William Boone. He later encounters Kitty Brydon, his childhood flame, accompanied by her tutor Dr. Mowgli grows up in the jungle and discovers a lost city ruled by King Louie the Orangutan and his monkey subjects, there he battles the snake Kaa with a diamond encrusted dagger. Mowgli also adopts a bear cub named Baloo. Bagheera the panther discovers them lost in the jungle and leads them to the wolves, who adopt Mowgli and Grey Brother as members of the pack. In the chaos, Mowgli and his wolf cub Grey Brother are presumed dead. That night after a tour of the jungle, the tiger Shere Khan attacks the camp and kills Mowgli’s father, intending to kill soldiers that were poaching his game. ![]() ![]() I re-watched it recently and found it to be very well-made, entertaining and pretty mature for a Disney film.Īt the time of the British Raj, Mowgli is the son of an Indian guide for a convoy of British troops led by Colonel Brydon. Despite diverging in many ways from Rudyard Kipling’s classic novel, I personally love this film. Even then, the few people who have seen Stephen Sommers' Jungle Book are either indifferent to it or think it's just "okay". It's strange reviewing a film that next to nobody has heard about.
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