Jungle Book (1942) on Netflix
Approved19421h 48mActionAdventureFamily
A Bengal tiger's attack on a village leaves a child lost to the jungle, where wolves raise him. Twelve years later he returns as Mowgli, and the merchant Buldeo distrusts the boy.
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- Netflix3.9/5
- IMDb6.7/105,130 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes54%
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Plot summary
A visiting British woman pays the elderly villager Buldeo to tell her a story of his youth. He recalls the night Shere Khan, a rogue Bengal tiger, attacked his village, killed a man and left that man's child lost to the jungle, where grey wolves raise him. Twelve years on, villagers capture Mowgli, and his mother Messua takes him in. He learns to speak and copies human ways while keeping his jungle habits. Buldeo, a merchant, dislikes the boy for coming from the jungle, though Buldeo's daughter Mahala becomes his friend. Walking the jungle together, the two find a hidden chamber inside a ruined palace, where Mahala takes a single coin.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jungle Book (1942)
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- RCA Victor proposed recording a suite from Miklos Rozsa's score with narration, and the 78-RPM album narrated by Sabu became the first substantial recording of a Hollywood dramatic film score. Rozsa recorded it with members of Toscanini's NBC Symphony in New York.
- While making Jungle Book, brothers Alexander and Zoltán Korda clashed over its tone: Zoltán wanted an underplayed realistic story, while Alexander favored an exuberant fantasist epic. Alexander, as always, got his way in the end.
