Mowgli grows up in the jungle and discovers his childhood sweetheart Kitty wandering through the jungle accompanied by her suitor, Captain William Boone. Mowgli also adopts a young Baloo as his brother. Bagheera the panther discovers the pair and leads them to the wolf pack where they are adopted as members of the pack. In the chaos, Mowgli and his wolf cub Grey Brother are separated from the convoy and his father killed by the tiger and lost in the jungle. As a boy, Mowgli is smitten by the Colonel's young daughter, Kitty. One night in the jungles of India, Shere Khan the tiger attacks a convoy of soldiers of the British Empire whom Mowgli and his father were guiding. I cannot fathom why Disney hasn't attempted to revive it for a new release. ![]() It's been almost ten years since I last saw it and my affection for it hasn't declined. Despite diverging in many ways from Kipling's classic novel, I love this film, and feel that it holds up well since when I was a child.
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