SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Executscan Expected more

Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

Organnall Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

SnoopyStyle In an Indian village, elderly storyteller Buldeo tells a story of his youth to a passing British lady. Shere Khan the tiger attacked just as the villagers are about to start a new settlement. The man's cub survives the attack and wonders into a wolves' den. Mowgli is then raised by the wolf family. All the jungle is his playground except for Shere Khan. Twelve years later, he investigates the village and is captured by the villagers. His birth mother Messua doesn't recognize him but takes him in anyways as her own. Buldeo is adamant against the boy who he sees as evil like the rest of the jungle. On the other hand, Buldeo's daughter Mahala is fascinated with Mowgli. Mowgli takes Mahala back into the jungle to meet the wolves. She finds the King's Palace in the jungle and his treasure chamber guarded by the ancient father of the cobras. Despite the cobra's warning, she takes one coin which is discovered by her father. This looks terrific in Technicolor although the village doesn't look as good as the jungle. All the animal footage is very fascinating. The animals look great in color. The treasure chamber is also quite nice with the ancient city. It's most commendable that they cast an Indian boy as Mowgli. The animal characters don't have quite as much of a presence as the Disney cartoon. This is a little more grown up than the cartoon. It deals with some fairly adult subject matters. Overall, the story moves along with enough thrills and is a fun treat from another era. Although the ending feels like it ran on for a little too long.

sdadsasdasdasdasdasd I wanted to watch this movie from long, and the movie was on my DVD shelf from past since June 2011, right when i heard about the protagonist on a local newspaper. Sabu, who hails from Mysore, India was the first Indian to make it big in Hollywood. Yet, his descendents back in India are leading a poor life. The movie should be one like a King Kong of those time. The screenplay is realistic, you would find the movie to be an extraordinary being it made 70 years ago when there were no computers to graphic. My little nephew like the movie when the wild animals were there!The film is also a mixture of Indian Culture, it again proves that India is a land of Wonders! Those traditional beliefs, which oppose people movements, those supernatural guards all just elevate your thinking on India. This is be true even now in India, as there was vast treasure found recently beneath the temple. You can call it an amazing treasure hunt movie.One suggestion, i saw as a VHS print, but nowadays DVDs are available. Check in a DVD to view in a better quality.

capone666 The upside to animals raising your child is that they are totally self-sufficient by the time they're two.Unfortunately, feral children only wear loincloths, like the one in this adventure.Buldeo (Joseph Calleia) recants for a friend his time in the jungles of India with a boy named Mowgli (Sabu), who was raised by wolves after the tiger Shere Khan killed his father.When Mowgli and Buldeo's daughter (Patricia O'Rourke) return with a gold coin from a jungle treasure one day, Buldeo insists Mowgli take him to the hidden cache.But when Mowgli refuses, Buldeo ignites the jungle.Now, it's up to Mowgli's menagerie: a python, a black panther, a bear and elephants, to save his adopted village.Loosely based on Rudyard Kipling's omnibus, this skillfully shot Technicolor jungle tale from 1942 features real animals personifying the story's psychological archetypes.However, real jungle booty isn't lost gold; it's widespread deforestation. Green Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.com

boymac2008 Saw this at the San Val Drive-in, Sun Valley, CA ..... During the war, most theaters had "Black-outs" ... and they would stop the movie for awhile, and turn out all the lights, till the warning was lifted ....I was fascinated that the Snake & Tiger could talk to the little boy, that memory has stayed with me all my life ..... most of the animals wanted to Eat him,but he had a gift of gab which got him off the hook most of the time.The Theater was located on San Fernando Road, near Lockheed Airport and many nights the movies were interrupted by low-flying aircraft, or the Bright searchlights along Empire Ave.Another GREAT depiction of this was a later film, "1941" with John Beluishe