The Jungle Book (1967)
The Jungle Book (1967)
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Phil Harris
Baloo the Bear
Sebastian Cabot
Bagheera the Panther
Louis Prima
King Louie of the Apes
Bruce Reitherman
Mowgli the Man Cub
George Sanders
Shere Khan the Tiger
Sterling Holloway
Kaa the Snake
J. Pat O'Malley
Col. Hathi the Elephant
Verna Felton
Elephant
Lord Tim Hudson
Flaps (voice)
Clint Howard
Elephant
John Abbott
Akela (voice)
Ben Wright
Rama (voice)
Chad Stuart
Vulture
Wolfgang Reitherman
Director
Darleen Carr
The Girl (voice)
Larry Clemmons
Writer
Bill Lee
Shere Khan (singing) / Elephant Soldier (voice) (uncredited)
Ralph Wright
Writer
Ken Anderson
Writer
Digby Wolfe
Ziggy (voice) (uncredited)
Hal Smith
Slob Elephant (uncredited)
Vance Gerry
Writer
George Bruns
Composer
Pete Henderson
Bandar-Log (voice) (uncredited)
Bill Skiles
Bandar-Log (voice) (uncredited)
Tom Acosta
Editor
Leo De Lyon
Flunky Monkey (voice) (uncredited)
Norman Carlisle
Editor
James MacDonald
Shere Khan & Bagheera’s Roars (voice) (uncredited)
Rudyard Kipling
Novel / Story
Walt Disney
Producer
Al Dempster
Background Designer
Don Griffith
Layout
Basil Davidovich
Layout
Tom Codrick
Layout
Dale Barnhart
Layout
Sylvia Roemer
Layout
Milt Kahl
Animation Director
Ollie Johnston
Animation Director
Frank Thomas
Animation Director
John Lounsbery
Animation Director
Bill Layne
Background Designer
Ralph Hulett
Background Designer
Art Riley
Background Designer
Thelma Witmer
Background Designer
Frank Armitage
Background Designer
Don A. Duckwall
Production Manager
Robert O. Cook
Sound
Evelyn Kennedy
Music Editor
Walter Sheets
Orchestrator
Robert B. Sherman
Songs
Richard M. Sherman
Songs
John Tucker
Animation Production Assistant
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 18, 1967
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 18m
Content RatingG
Budget$4,000,000
Box Office$378,000,000
Genres
Wiki.
The Jungle Book is a 1967 American animated musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution. Based very loosely on Rudyard Kipling's 1894 book of the same title, it is the final animated feature film to be produced by Walt Disney, who died during its production. It was directed by Wolfgang Reitherman and written by Larry Clemmons, Ralph Wright, Ken Anderson, and Vance Gerry. Featuring the voices of Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway, J. Pat O'Malley, and Bruce Reitherman, the film's plot follows Mowgli, a feral child raised in the Indian jungle by wolves, as his friends, Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, try to convince him to leave the jungle before the ruthless tiger Shere Khan arrives.
The early versions of both the screenplay and the soundtrack followed Kipling's work more closely, with a dramatic, dark, and sinister tone, which Disney did not want in his family film, leading to writer Bill Peet and songwriter Terry Gilkyson being replaced.
The Jungle Book was released on October 18, 1967, to positive reception, with acclaim for its soundtrack, featuring five songs by the Sherman Brothers and one by Gilkyson, "The Bare Necessities". With a gross of $23.8 million worldwide, the film initially became Disney's second-highest-grossing animated film in the United States and Canada, the ninth-highest-grossing film of 1967, and was also successful during its re-releases. The film was also successful throughout the world, becoming Germany's highest-grossing film by number of admissions. Disney released a live-action adaptation in 1994 and an animated sequel, The Jungle Book 2, in 2003; a live-action/CGI hybrid remake directed by Jon Favreau was released in 2016, with a sequel to that film in development.