Quotes
 Bagheera: This will take brains, not brawn.
Baloo: You better believe it, and I`m loaded with both. [repeated line]
Baloo: You better believe it!
Baloo: Now, look. It`s like this, little britches. All you gotta do is...
Baloo: [singing] Look for the bare necessities / The simple bare necessities / Forget about your worries and your strife / I mean the bare necessities / Are Mother Nature`s recipies / That bring the bare necessities of life / Wherever I wander / Wherever I roam / I couldn`t be fonder / Of my big home / The bees are buzzin` in the tree / To make some honey just for me / When you look under the rocks and plants / And take a glance at the fancy ants / Then maybe try a few...
Mowgli: You eat ants?
Baloo: You better believe it. And you`re gonna love the way they tickle.
[first lines]
Bagheera: Many strange legends are told of these jungles of India, but none so strange as the story of a small boy named Mowgli. It all began when the silence of the jungle was broken by an unfamiliar sound.
[Sound of baby crying]
Bagheera: It was a sound like one never heard before in this part of the jungle. It was a man cub! Had I known how deeply I was to be involved, I would`ve obeyed my first impulse and walked away.
Mowgli: Hello. What are you doing?
Junior: Shh. Drillin`.
Mowgli: Can I do it too?
Junior: Sure, just do what I do. But don`t talk in ranks. It`s against regulations.
Colonel Hathi: Espirit de Corps. That`s the way I earned my commission in the Majarajah`s Fifth Pachyderm Brigade. Back in `88 it was. Or... or was it?
Winifred: Here it comes. The Victoria Cross bit again.
Colonel Hathi: It was then I received the Victoria Cross for bravery above and beyond the call of duty. Ha ha! Those were the days. Discipline! Discipline was the thing! Builds character, and all that sort of thing, you know.
Mowgli: Oh, Baloo, I wanna stay with you.
Baloo: Certainly, you do.
Bagheera: Oh? And just how do you think he will survive?
Baloo: "How do you think he will... ” What do you mean how do you think he... He`s with me, ain`t he? And I`ll learn him all I know.
Bagheera: Oh? That shouldn`t take too long.
Baloo: [singing] Now when you pick a pawpaw / Or a prickly pear/ And you prick a raw paw / Well, next time beware / Don`t pick the prickly pear by the paw / When you pick a pear try to use the claw / But you don`t need to use the claw / When you pick a pear of the big pawpaw / Have I given you a clue?
Mowgli: Golly, thanks, Baloo.
Bagheera: "Pawpaw"... Ha! Of all the silly gibberish.
Baloo: C`mon, Baggy, get with the beat.
Baloo: So just try and... relax. Yeah. Cool it. Fall apart in my backyard. `Cause let me tell you something, little britches: if you act like that bee at... Uh-uh. You`re working too hard. And don`t spend your time lookin` around for something you want that can`t be found...
Baloo: [singing] When you find out you can live without it / And go along not thinking about it / I`ll tell you something true / The bare necessities of life will come to you.
King Louie: [singing] Now, I`m the king of the swingers, whoa / The jungle V.I.P / I`ve reached the top and had to stop / And that`s what`s botherin` me / I wanna be a man, Man Cub / And stroll right into town / And be just like the other men / I`m tired of monkeyin` around.
Mowgli: Gee, cousin Louie, you`re doing real good.
King Louie: Now here`s your part of the deal, cuz. Lay the secret on me of Man`s Red Fire.
Mowgli: But I don`t know how to make fire.
King Louie: [singing] Now don`t try to kid me, Man Cub / I made a deal with you / What I desire is Man`s Red Fire / To make my dream come true / Now give me the secret, Man Cub / Come on, clue me what to do / Give me the power of Man`s Red Flower / So I can be like you.
Mowgli: Where we goin`, Baloo?
Baloo: Well, uh, it`s uh... um... well, it`s sorta new and, uh...
Mowgli: Oh, I don`t care, as long as I`m with you.
Baloo: Mowgli, look, buddy, uh, there`s somethin` I gotta tell ya.
Mowgli: Tell me what, Baloo?
Baloo: Oh, gee whiz. Now, how did ol` Baggy put it? Uh, uh, Mowgli... Ha! You wouldn`t marry a panther, would you?
Mowgli: Gee, I don`t even know what you`re talking about.
Baloo: Mowgli, don`t you realize that you`re a human?
Mowgli: I`m not any more, Baloo. I`m a bear like you.
Baloo: Little buddy, look. Listen to me.
Mowgli: [play fighting] Come on, Baloo.
Baloo: Mowgli, stop it now. Hold still. I wanna tell you something. Now listen to me.
Mowgli: What`s the matter, ol` papa bear?
Baloo: Look, Mowgli, I`ve been trying to tell ya, I`ve been trying all morning to tell ya. I`ve got to take you back to the man-village!
Mowgli: The man-village?
Baloo: Now look, kid, I can explain...
Mowgli: But-but you said we were partners.
Baloo: Now believe me, kid, I...
Mowgli: You`re just like... like old Bagheera!
Baloo: Now just a minute! That`s going too far!
Ziggy: I`ve got it! Let`s flap over to the east side of the jungle. They`ve always got a bit of action, a bit of a swingin` scene, all right.
Buzzie: Aw, come off it. Things are right dead all over.
Ziggy: You mean you wish they were.
[all laugh]
Dizzy: [serious] Very funny.
Baloo: [scating] Well, it`s a doo-bah-dee-doo, yes, it`s a doo-bah-dee-doo, I mean a doo-bee, doo-bee, doo-bee, doo-bee, doo-bee-dee-doo. And with...
[Sees Mowgli]
Baloo: Well, now. Ha ha! What have we here?
[sniffs Mowgli]
Baloo: Hmmm. Say, what a funny little bit of a...
Mowgli: [slaps Baloo in the nose] Go away!
Baloo: Oh, boy! I`ve seen everything in these woods. Ooh, what have I run on? What a pretty thing this is.
Mowgli: Leave me alone.
Baloo: Well, now. That`s pretty big talk, little britches.
Mowgli: I`m big enough.
[starts slugging Baloo]
Baloo: Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk. Pitiful. Hey, kid. You need help, and ol` Baloo`s gonna learn ya to fight like a bear.
Kaa: [after being hit by Bagheera] Ooh, my s-s-sinus. You have just made a s-s-s-serious mistake, my friend. A very s-s-s-stupid...
Bagheera: N-n-now, Kaa, I was...
Kaa: ...mis-s-stake. Look me in the eye when I`m speaking to you.
Bagheera: [has one eye closed to avoid being hypnotized] No, please, Kaa...
Kaa: Both eyes, if you please.
[Bagheera is fully hypnotized]
Kaa: You have just s-s-sealed your doom.
[just as Kaa is about to eat Bagheera, Mowgli pushes Kaa`s body off the tree; he falls in a pile on the ground]
Mowgli: [to the unconscious Baloo] Baloo, get up. Oh, please get up.
Bagheera: Mowgli, try to understand.
Mowgli: Bagheera, what`s the matter with him?
Bagheera: You`ve got to be brave, like Baloo was.
Mowgli: You... you don`t mean... Oh, no. Baloo.
Bagheera: Now, now. I know how you feel. But you must remember, Mowgli. Greater love hath no one than he who lays down his life for his friend.
[At this point, Baloo starts waking up, unbeknownst to Bagheera and Mowgli]
Bagheera: Whenever great deeds are remembered in this jungle, one name will stand above all others: our friend, Baloo the bear.
Baloo: [sniffing] He`s cracking me up.
Bagheera: The memory of Baloo`s sacrifice and bravery will forever be engraved on our saddened hearts.
Baloo: Beautiful.
Bagheera: This spot where Baloo fell will always be a hallowed place in the jungle, for there lies one of nature`s noblest creatures.
Baloo: I wish my mother could have heard this.
Bagheera: It`s best we leave now. Come along, Man Cub.
Baloo: Hey, don`t stop now, Baggy. You`re doing great! There`s more, lots more!
Bagheera: [Angry] Why, you big fraud! You-you-you four-flusher! I-I`m fed up!...
Mowgli: [sees the girl] Look. What`s that?
Bagheera: Oh, it`s the man-village.
Mowgli: No, no. I mean that.
Baloo: Forget about those, they ain`t nothing but trouble.
Mowgli: Just a minute. I`ve never seen one before.
Baloo: So you`ve seen one. So let`s go.
Mowgli: I`ll be right back. I want a better look.
Baloo: Mowgli, wait a minute.
Bagheera: Oh, Baloo. Let him have a better look.
King Louie: Ha-ha, so you`re the mancub? Crazy.
Mowgli: I`m not as crazy as you are, put me down.
Buzzie: Hey Flaps, So what we were going to do?
Flaps: I don`t know, what`cha onwanna do?
Buzzie: Look Flaps, first I say "what were going to do?" then you say "I don`t know, what`cha wanna do?" then I say "what we`re going to do" then you say what`cha wanna do" let`s do something.
Flaps: Ok. What`cha wanna do?
Baloo: Ha-Ha! Man that`s what I call a swinging party.
[after running to save Mowgli when he hears Baloo`s roar]
Bagheera: Oh No! It`s Baloo, that shiftless, two bit, jungle bum.
Baloo: What do they call you?
Bagheera: His name is Mowgli, and I`m taking him back to the man village.
Baloo: Man village? They`ll ruin him. They`ll make a man out of him.
Bagheera: Now, while you create a distrubance, I`ll rescue Mowgli. Got that?
Baloo: [dancing away] I`m gone, man. Solid gone.
Bagheera: Not yet, Baloo!
[Kaa has hypnotized Mowgli into a deep sleep]
Kaa: You`re s-s-snoring.
Mowgli: [asleep] Sorry.
Shere Khan: Bravo, Bravo. An extraordinary performance. And thank you for entertaining my victim.
Flaps: D-don`t mention
[gulps]
Flaps: your highness
Shere Khan: [laughs] Boo!
[Vultures flee]
Dizzy: Let`s get out of here.
Buzzie: Let me through! Gain way! Run, friend, run!
Mowgli: Run? Why should I run?
Shere Khan: Why should you run? Is it possible that you don`t know who I am?
Mowgli: I know you alright. You`re Shere Khan.
Shere Khan: Precisely. And you should know that everyone runs from Shere Khan.
Mowgli: You don`t scare me. I won`t run from anyone.
Shere Khan: Ah, you have spirit for one so small. And such spirit is deserving of a sporting chance. Now, I`m going to close my eyes and count to ten. It makes the chase more interesting... for me. One...
[Music gets tenser as Mowgli looks for something to defend himself with as Shere Khan continues counting]
Shere Khan: ...two...
[Mowgli spots something and goes over to retrieve it]
Shere Khan: ...three...
[as Mowgli picks up a stick, Shere Khan begins to suspect something]
Shere Khan: ...four...
[Mowgli prepares to defend himself]
Shere Khan: You`re trying my patience. Five, six, seven, eight, nine, TEN!
[Shere Khan leaps at Mowgli with a loud roar, Mowgli loses all of his nerve at the sight of this fearsome creature]
Mowgli: [mentioning Kaa] Bagheera, he`s got a knot in his tail!
Kaa: [imitating Mowgli] He-he-he, he`s got a knot in his tail!
[as Kaa is about to eat Mowgli, Shere Khan pulls on his tail, which makes a doorbell sound]
Kaa: Ooh! Oh, now what? I`ll be right down. Yes, yes, who is it?
Shere Khan: It`s me. Shere Khan. I`d like a word with you, if you don`t mind.
Kaa: Shere Khan, what a surprise.
Shere Khan: Yes, isn`t it. I just dropped by. Now forgive me if I`ve interrupted anything.
Kaa: Oh no, no, nothing at all.
Shere Khan: [brandishing his claws] I thought perhaps that you were entertaining someone up there in your coils.
Kaa: Coils? Someone? Oh no, I was just curling up for my siesta.
Shere Khan: But you were singing to someone. Who is it, Kaa?
[Shere Khan grabs Kaa`s throat with his paw]
Kaa: Ah, um, oh no, I was just singing, uh, to myself.
Shere Khan: Indeed.
Kaa: Yes... yes, you see I have... trouble with my sinuses.
Shere Khan: What a pity!
Kaa: Oh, you have no idea. It`s simply terrible. I can`t eat, I can`t sleep, so I ssssssing myself to sleep. You know, self-hypnosis. Let me show you how it works.
[Kaa prepares to look in Shere Khan`s eyes and try to hypnotize him]
[Kaa tries to hypnotize Shere Khan just as he did to Mowgli]
Kaa: [singing] Trust in me...
[Shere Khan bats him away with his free paw]
Shere Khan: I can`t be bothered with that, I have no time for that nonesense.
Kaa: Ssssssssome other time, perhaps?
Shere Khan: [Scratches Kaa`s nostril with his claw] Perhaps. But at the moment I`m searching for a man-cub.
Kaa: Man-cub? What man-cub?
Shere Khan: The one who is lost. Now where do you suppose we could be?
Kaa: Search me?
[Kaa covers his mouth to stifle his gasp]
Shere Khan: That`s an excellent idea. I`m sure you wouldn`t mind showing me your coils, would you, Kaa?
Kaa: Ccccccertainly not.
[Shows his tail]
Kaa: Nothing here, and nothing in here.
[Points into his mouth]
Kaa: [Mowgli snores up in the treetop and Shere Khan`s ears prick up at the sound; Kaa snores noisly]
Kaa: It`ssssssss my ssssinuses.
Shere Khan: Hm.
[looks up at the treetop]
Shere Khan: Indeed. And now, how about the middle?
Kaa: The middle? Oh, the middle.
[Kaa unfurls part of his midsection, twirling Mowgli around in his sleep, and brings it down for Shere Khan to inspect, which he does]
Kaa: [laughs] I-I-I assure you there`s nothing in the middle.
Shere Khan: Hmm, barely. Well, if you do so happen to see the man-cub, you will inform me first.
[Scratches Kaa`s chin]
Shere Khan: Understand?
Kaa: [gulps] I get the point. Cross my heart, hope to die.
Shere Khan: In good show. And now I must continue my search for the helpless little lad.
[Shere Khan wanders off, Kaa frowns]
Kaa: Oh, who does he think he`s fooling. The helpless little lass... woooo he gives me the shhhhhhivers.
[Kaa`s shivering wakes up Mowgli]
Kaa: Picking on that poor, little, helpless boy. Oh yes... poor, little, helpless boy.
[Mowgli pushes the rest of Kaa`s coils off the branch he is on and sends him falling to the ground]
[Shere Khan is calmly stalking a deer just as Colonel Hathi and the other elephants frighten off his would-be prey with their noise]
Elephants: Hut, two, three, four. Hut, two, three, four.
Shere Khan: What beastly luck! Confound that ridiculous Colonel Hathi!
[Shere Khan watches Colonel Hathi and the other elephants look for Mowgli while tearing down a bunch of trees]
Shere Khan: Element of surprise? Ho! I say. And now for my rendez-vous with the lost man-cub.
Bagheera: Baloo, birds of a feather should flock together. You wouldn`t marry a panther now, would you?
Baloo: I don`t know.
[laughs]
Baloo: Come to think of it, no panther has ever asked me. Ha-ha.
Bagheera: [getting irritated] Baloo, you`ve got to be serious...
Baloo: Oh, stop worrying, Baggy! Stop worrying! I`ll take care of him.
Bagheera: Yes, like you did when the monkeys kidnapped him, huh?
Baloo: Can`t a guy make one mistake?
Bagheera: Not in the jungle! And another thing, sooner or later Mowgli will meet Shere Khan.
Baloo: The tiger? What`s he got against the kid?
Bagheera: He hates man with a vengenance. You know that! Because he fears man`s gun and man`s fire.
Baloo: But little Mowgli don`t have those things.
Bagheera: Shere Khan won`t wait until he does. He`ll get Mowgli while he`s young and helpless. Just one swipe!
Baloo: Oh! Well, what... what are we going to do?
Bagheera: Do what`s best for the boy.
Baloo: You better believe it! You name it, I`ll do it.
Bagheera: Good. Then make Mowgli go to the man-village.
Baloo: Are you out of your mind? I promised him that he could stay here in the jungle with me.
Bagheera: Well, that`s just the point! As long as he remains with you, he`s in danger! So, it`s up to you.
Baloo: Why me?
Bagheera: B-because he won`t listen to me.
Baloo: But I love that kid.
[sniffs]
Baloo: I love him like he was my own cub!
Bagheera: Then think what`s best for Mowgli, and not yourself.
Baloo: Well... well, can`t... well, can`t I wait until morning?
Bagheera: It`s morning now. Go one Baloo.
[Baloo sighs and approaches Mowgli who is asleep]
Baloo: Oh boy!
Kaa: [to Mowgli] Just you wait till I get you in my coils!
Bagheera: Shere Khan is not going to allow you to grow up to become a man. Just another hunter with a gun.
Mowgli: Aww, well I`ll explain I`d never do a thing like that.
Bagheera: You wouldn`t marry a panther, would you?
Baloo: I don`t know. Come to think of it, no panther ever asked me.
Colonel Hathi: [Seeing Mowgli for the first time] Well, a new recruit, eh? Ha ha... uh say what happened to your trunk?
[Begins prodding Mowgli`s nose with his twig]
Mowgli: [Much annoyed] Hey, stop that!
Colonel Hathi: [Surprised beyond belief] A mancub! This is treason!
[Picks Mowgli up with his trunk]
Colonel Hathi: Sabotage! I`ll have no mancub in my jungle!
[Puts him down]
Mowgli: It`s not your jungle!
Bagheera: [Running onto the scene] Hold it! Hold it! I can explain, Hathi.
Colonel Hathi: Colonel Hathi, if you please sir.
Bagheera: Oh yes. Colonel Hathi. The mancub is with me. I`m taking him to the man village.
Colonel Hathi: To stay?
Bagheera: You have the word of Bagheera.
Colonel Hathi: Good. And remember: an elephant never forgets!
[Mowgli folds his arms in disgust]
Baloo: [after the girl from the Man Village drops her jug of water] She did that on purpose!
Bagheera: Obviously.
Kaa: [hypnotizing Mowgli and coiling him up] Please, go to sleep, sleep tight little man cup, rest in peace... sleep... sleep...
Mowgli: Ba... gherra?
[chokes]
Bagheera: Now, it`s no use arguing anymore. No more talk until morning.
Kaa: [laughs] He won`t be here in the morning.
[starts to eat Mowgli]
Bagheera: [almost asleep, but soon notices Kaa about to devour Mowgli] Huh? Oh yes, he will, I... KAA! HOLD IT, KAA!
[smacks Kaa in the face]
Baloo: He`s hooked.
Bagheera: Ah, it was inevitable, Baloo. The boy couldn`t help himself. It was bound to happen. Mowgli is where he belongs now.
Baloo: Yeah. I guess you`re right. But I still think he`d have made one swell bear. Well, come on, Baggy, buddy. Let`s get back where we belong. And get with the beat.
[after Mowgli pushes Kaa`s coils off him the second and last time]
Mowgli: [angry] You told me a lie, Kaa. You said I could trust you!
Kaa: It`s like YOU said: you can`t trust ANYONE!
[Baloo is holding on to Shear Khan`s tail as he`s running]
Buzzie: [Flaps and Dizzy have just saved Mowgli] He`s safe now. You can let go, Baloo.
Baloo: Are you kidding? There`s teeth in the other end!
Mowgli: Bagheera, where are we going?
Bagheera: You`re going back to the man-village right now.
Mowgli: I`m not going.
Bagheera: Oh, yes, you are.
Mowgli: [grabbing a hold of a small tree by a river] I`m staying right here.
Bagheera: You`re going if I have to drag you every step of the way.
[He grabs a hold of Mowgli`s loincloth around his middle in his teeth and tries to tug him off to get him to let go of the tree]
Bagheera: [through his teeth] Let go, you!
Mowgli: *You* let go of *me*!
[as Bagheera pulls harder, he accidentally lets go and falls into the river. As he climbs out of the river, he hits head against a fallen log]
Bagheera: [furious] Oh, that does it! I`ve had it, man-cub! From now on, you`re on your own... ALONE!
Mowgli: Don`t worry about me.
Baloo: [Mowgli is almost at the man village entrance] Mowgli, come back, come back!
Bagheera: [encouragingly] No, go on, go on!
[at the end of "The Bare Necessities"]
Baloo: Beautiful! That`s real jungle harmony.
Mowgli: I like being a bear.
Baloo: That`s my boy. And you`re gonna make one swell bear. Why, you even sing like one.
Monkey: A rolling bear gathers no hair!
[the monkeys have taken Mowgli away and have tricked Baloo into falling off a cliff]
Baloo: [hollering] Bagheera! BAGHEERA!
[far away, Bagheera hears Baloo`s echoing holler and Bagheera starts back]
Bagheera: Well, it`s happened. It took a little longer than I thought, but it`s happened.
[Baloo struggles up the cliff while Bagheera returns to the cliff where Baloo fell, just Baloo climbs back up]
Baloo: [hollering right in Bagheera`s ear] BAGHEERA!
[his echoing holler startles Bagheera, who glares at him]
Baloo: Oh, you heard me, huh?
Bagheera: Mowgli? Mowgli!
[he turns to Baloo]
Bagheera: All right, what`s happened? Where`s Mowgli?
Baloo: They ambushed me; thousands of `em!
[he strikes several fighting poses as he says:]
Baloo: I jabbed with my left, then I swung with a right, and then I...
Bagheera: [exasperated] Oh, for the last time, what happened to Mowgli?
Baloo: Like I told ya, them mangy monkeys carried him off!
Bagheera: The ancient ruins? Oh, I hate to think what will happen when he meets that king of theirs.
[Baloo`s monkey disguise in the ancient ruins has failed, exposing him]
Monkey: It`s Baloo the bear!
Second Monkey: Yeah, that`s him! How`d that square get in there?
Flaps: [feeling Mowgli`s legs] Blimey! He`s got legs like a stork, he has.
Buzzie: Like a stork, yeah. But he ain`t got no feathers, he ain`t.
Mowgli: [to Kaa] Go away! Leave me alone!
Kaa: [trying to get Mowgli to look into his eyes] Let me look at you.
[Mowgli resists]
Kaa: You don`t want me to look at you? Then you look at me.
Akela: [to his fellow wolves about Mowgli] Shere Khan will surely kill the boy and all who try to protect him. Now, are we all in agreement as to what must be done?
[the wolves nod]
Akela: Now it is my unpleasant duty to tell the boy`s father. Rama? Come over here, please.
Father Wolf: Yes, Akela?
Akela: The Council has reached its decision. Man-cub can no longer stay with the pack. He must leave at once.
Father Wolf: Leave?
Akela: I am sorry, Rama; there is no other way.
Father Wolf: But... but the man-cub is... is like my own son. Surely he`s entitled to the protection of the pack.
Akela: But, Rama, even the strength of the pack is no match for the tiger.
Father Wolf: But the boy cannot survive alone in the jungle.
Bagheera: Akela, perhaps I can be of help.
Akela: You, Bagheera? How?
Bagheera: I know of a man-village where he`ll be safe. Mowgli and I have taken many walks into the jungle together. I`m sure he`ll go with me.
Akela: So be it. Now there`s no time to lose. Good luck.
Buzzie: So what we gonna do?
Flaps: I don`t know. Hey, now don`t start *that* again!
Mowgli: [to King Louie] What do you want me for?
King Louie: Word has grabbed my royal ear... Have a banana.
[he pops a banana neatly out of its skin and into Mowgli`s mouth]
King Louie: ... that you want to stay in the jungle.
Mowgli: [his mouth full of banana] Stay in the jungle? I sure do.
King Louie: Good, and ol` King Louie...
[scatting]
King Louie: Ba-ba-do-bay-boo-boo-doo-doo...
[stops scatting]
King Louie: ... that`s me, can fix it for you.
[he takes two bananas]
King Louie: Have two bananas.
[like the first one, he pops these two out of their skins and into Mowgli`s mouth]
King Louie: Have we got a deal?
Mowgli: [his mouth full of banana] Yes, sir, I`ll do...
[he swallows them]
Mowgli: I`ll do anything to stay in the jungle.
King Louie: Well, then, I`ll lay it on the line for you.
[he starts singing "I Wanna Be Like You"]
Trivia
The last film personally overseen by Walt Disney.
Phil Harris, the voice of Baloo the bear in Disney`s "The Jungle Book," also played the voice of a bear in another Disney film: he was Little John in Robin Hood (1973).
Baloo means bear in Hindi.
`Shere` as in Shere Khan means Tiger in Persian.
`Shere` as in Shere Khan means Tiger in Hindi.
Bagheera means panther in Hindi.
Hathi in `Colonel Hathi` means elephant in Hindi.
This film was the last performance for actress Verna Felton who died the day before Walt Disney himself died.
A scene with a near-sighted, short-tempered rhinoceros named Rocky, who would encounter Baloo and Mowgli after the fall of King Louie`s palace, was cut out of the script after Walt Disney figured that two comic scenes back-to-back was poor movie-making. Rocky was to be voiced by Frank Fontaine, who recorded his lines, and animation went as far as detailed storyboards.
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# Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman were hired as songwriters after Terry Gilkyson wouldn`t distance himself from the "darker" side of The Jungle Book. His song "The Bare Necessities" was included in the film, and was the only song from the film to be nominated for an Academy Award. Two other songs written for the film (by Gilkyson) can be heard on the soundtrack CD: "Brothers All" and "The Song of the Seeonee."
Came seventh in the UK`s Ultimate Film, in which films were placed in order of how many seats they sold at cinemas
Walt Disney told his animation crew to "throw away" Rudyard Kipling`s book, "The Jungle Book" because the resulting storyboards were too dark and dramatic. "Bear Necessities", was the only song he liked and kept because the music along with the draft was also too dark and dramatic.
According to Caroline Balestier, Rudyard Kipling`s widow, "Mowgli" is pronounced "MAU-glee", not "MOH-glee". She reportedly never forgave Walt Disney for the gaffe.
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# Darleen Carr who played the voice of The Girl (Shanti) is the younger sister of The Sound of Music (1965) actress Charmian Carr (Liesl von Trapp).
The xerographic system, which had been used since One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), was further refined to combine both Xeroxed cels with hand inked details. For example, while the basic animation on the village girl at the end of the movie was with Xeroxed cels, her mouth was inked by hand. The backgrounds also moved back towards the more traditional look of earlier films.
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# The Vultures were originally going to be voiced by The Beatles. However, due to a change in schedule, they dropped out at the last minute. The look of The Vultures and the voices are now an homage to The Beatles.
This was the last film that Darleen Carr made at the Disney studios. She stopped working at the Disney studio`s when Walt Disney died in 1966.
Walt Disney died during production of this film. Many people wondered at what the studio`s fate would be, particularly the animation division. The film performed extremely well at the box office, ensuring that the animators would not be put out of work. Had the film failed, it is likely that animation would have been closed down at the Disney studio.
Voted number 19 in Channel 4`s (UK) "Greatest Family Films"
When Mowgli is tackled by his pack-mates and enthusiastically welcomed home, these key frames were lifted from The Sword in the Stone (1963) when Wart/Arthur is welcomed home by the keep dogs.
Kaa`s song "Trust in me" was originally written for Mary Poppins (1964) as "Land of sand" but not used.
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# The laughing heard from King Louie when he is tickled by Baloo was originally used in Song of the South (1946) as Brer Rabbit`s laughing heard during the Laughing Place sequence.
All of the `scatting` in the film was improvised by `Phil Harris` and Louis Prima.
The Vultures song "That`s What Friends Are For" was originally written with Beatles-style beat, but Disney insisted it was changed, so as not to date it to the Sixties. It was rewritten as a barbershop quartet, to make it timeless.
Her role as Winifred the Elephant (Colonel Hathi`s mate) was the last film role for Verna Felton, before her death in December 1966. Her first role in an animated Disney film was also that of an elephant: she was The Elephant Matriarch in Dumbo (1941).
Winifred (Colonel Hathi`s mate) is the only female animal to have any dialogue throughout the entire film, as though Raksha (the Mother Wolf) briefly appears at the beginning, she never actually speaks.
The 19th animated feature in Disney animated features canon, and the last to be personally supervised by Walt Disney, himself.
The first Disney film to be released after Walt Disney`s death in 1966, just prior to the film`s theatrical release.
Just after Mowgli runs away and Bagheera is trying to convince Col. Hati to look for him, Hati`s wife Winifred announces if they don`t help find him, she will take command of the herd. Hati is outraged at the thought of a female leading. The joke is that elephants herds are led by a matriarch (female), while adult males generally live alone. As the only apparent female in the herd, Winifred should be leading by default.
When Gregory Peck was the President of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Science, he tried his hardest to get a full-length animated feature film (most notably the The Jungle Book (1967)) not only nominated for Best Picture Academy Award but actually win the award. He resigned as President in 1970 when other members didn`t agree with him about animated films being nominated for the award.
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