Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

GurlyIamBeach Instant Favorite.

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

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.

utgard14 Colorful live-action version of the Rudyard Kipling classic. The story is about a boy raised by wolves who tries to adapt to life with humans. I grew up with the Disney animated film so I suppose that will always be "my" Jungle Book but I still enjoyed this film very much. Great-looking sets, beautiful technicolor, well-directed action scenes, fine Miklos Rosza score, and a solid cast make this a highly enjoyable movie. Sabu is perfectly cast as Mowgli. Great character actors Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, and Frank Puglia all play parts unlike anything else I've ever seen them in and they do quite well. It's a really fun adventure film with lots of heart.

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

movietrail I first encountered Sabu in his other famous flick, "Thief of Baghdad", where he impressed with both acting talent and physical prowess. The movie, though full of Arab clichés and with actors and extras of every race but Arab, was forgivable because its premise was so fantasy-oriented. "Jungle Book" however, supposedly in a much more realistic mode, presents an India that is a mishmash of cultures, sometimes pseudoCambodian, sometimes pseudoTurkish, sometimes pseudoRoosevelt; with a lot of white actors who look like a bunch of poorly-painted Al Jolsons trying to be Indians while talking like New York cabbies. An overly-clichéd India would have been an improvement, but it seems nobody had any idea what India and its people should look like. The two significant female characters, while both actually of European stock, were the only characters (besides Sabu) who were close to convincing as Indians (although their costumes were not). And oddly, altho the movie poster claims that Mowgli risked his life in the jungle for the "girl he loved", their is no hint that their relation with each other was anything more than a vague mutual curiosity. The plot line was going everywhere and nowhere, and the abundant animal scenes were well shot but redundant (some reviewers comment on the obvious flakiness of the animals, but they must have better eyes than I do). For me, at least, the film's only saving grace was Sabu himself, who obviously was the inspiration for the project. He lit up every scene he appeared in with the believability of his character and his lithe and athletic physique which showcased much more agility than even in "Thief". But if you want sexy, you would do much better to see Jason Scott Lee's 90s version, albeit Mr Lee is hard to believe as an Indian. However, back to the 1942 version, the subplot dealing with Mowgli's nemesis - the evil tiger Shere Khan - was half-baked and he did SK in half-way through the movie with no apparent fanfare. It didn't mesh in well with the story of the greedy Hindu 3 stooges raiding the treasure and consequently the whole bit with the jungle fire and all. The real failure, of course, is the end where the British lass asks the storyteller "what happened to the boy and the girl??", to which the storyteller replies,"THAT... is another stor-r-ry!"Wha'...??!