Search - The Jungle Book [40th Anniversary Edition] [2 Disc Platinum Edition] on DVD

MPAA Rating: G Content Advisory: Child Classic Movie Release: 1967 DVD Release: 10/02/2007 Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Edition: Dual Layered Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 2 Number of Discs: 2 Run Time: 1 hrs 18 mins Studio: Walt Disney Video Members Wishing: 116 Genres: Adventure, Musical, Children's/Family, Children's Fantasy, Animated Musical, Jungle Film, Family-Oriented Adventure, Coming-of-Age See Also: The Jungle Book [Limited Edition]

The final animated feature produced under the supervision of Walt Disney is a lively neo-swing musical, loosely based upon the tales of Rudyard Kipling. The story takes place in a tropical jungle where people are conspicuously absent. But one day Bagheera the Panther (voice of Sebastian Cabot) discovers a baby in the wreck of a boat. Feeling pity on the child, Bagheera takes him to be raised with the wolves. Ten years later, the child has grown into Mowgli (voice of Bruce Reitherman). Mowgli discovers that his life is in danger because of the return to the area of Shere Khan the Tiger (voice of George Sanders), whose hatred of humans is such that Mowgli faces certain death if discovered. Bagheera agrees to transport Mowgli to the human village, where he will be safe from Shere Khan. Along the way to the village, night falls and Mowgli and Bagheera almost succumb to the man-eating snake Kaa (voice of Sterling Holloway). Escaping Kaa's coils, they run into the lock-step military elephant band of Colonel Hathi (voice of J. Pat O'Malley). Afterwards, Mowgli, who doesn't want to be sent to the human village, runs away from Bagheera and meets up with the fun-loving Baloo the Bear (voice of Phil Harrris). With both Bagheera and Baloo to protect him, Mowgli is saved from several more life-threatening situations -- including a barber-shop quartet of vultures, the crazed King Louie of the Apes (voice of Louis Prima), and Shere Khan himself -- before making it to the village of humans. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Bruce Reitherman - Mowgli the Man Cub
Phil Harris - Baloo the Bear
Sebastian Cabot - Bagheera the Panther
Louis Prima - King Louie of the Apes
George Sanders - Shere Khan the Tiger
Sterling Holloway - Kaa the Snake
J. Pat O'Malley - Col. Hathi the Elephant