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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0025493071498
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Passport
Manufacturer: Passport
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Passport
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 26, 2003
Running Time: 160 minutes
Sales Rank: 27267
Studio: Passport
Theatrical Release Date: April 03, 1942
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Disney has mined Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories twice, but it has never topped this elegant, lush classic by the British Korda brothers. Producer Alexander Korda brought director Zoltan and designer Vincent to California, where they used Hollywood's resources to create a storybook India of verdant jungles, beautiful lagoons, and modest peasant villages. Sabu plays Mowgli, the man-cub raised by wolves and schooled in the jungle who returns to civilization as a young man. When greedy villagers discover that he knows of a hidden treasure, they turn the town against him and follow him to the ruins of an ancient palace (a magnificent, crumbling temple of glowing blue stone overrun with vines and vegetation). Sabu gives a vital, energetic performance, leaping and climbing like he was born to the wild and innocent of corruption and fear that infects the village. As the treasure hunters turn on one another and resort to murder for the prize they all desire, the film gets darker and fiercer than Disney ever dared in its remakes. It's still the most glorious of all versions, a grandly realized epic vision with a sense of wonder and a magnificent fantasy landscape of deep, rich colors, like a painting come to life. Joseph Calleia plays the greedy villain with his usual conniving flair. Miklós Rósza wrote the gorgeous score. Be wary of inferior video copies: the film has fallen into the public domain and is available in a proliferation of substandard prints. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - It's a jungle out there kid!
As I review this film, I can't help but think back to when I was a boy and how this film affected me when I first viewed it. As a boy, the introduction actually bored me, but the introduction is necessary to the story if you are to understand the character of the animals that are to appear in the story and what they mean.
Who did fascinate me was Mowgli. First off seeing Sabu again as a adult, it's clear Sabu was obviously born to play this role. Physically, he is one beautiful male ... Read More
Rating: - Please, Somebody, Restore This!!!
I give this film five stars because it's a gem. I do NOT give the DVD release any stars whatsoever. This is one of those unfortunate films that fell through the cracks into Public Domain (like FLYING DEUCES and ROYAL WEDDING) and has been languishing in shoddy releases ever since. The source print(s)for this DVD leave us with a muddy picture whose Technicolor splendor is reduced at times to sepia or even black and white and whose soundtrack is consistently noisy.
The movie is delightful ... Read More
Rating: - Great
Mom loved it! Revisited her childhood. As good as she remembered it.
Rating: - The great original version of a fantastic movie
This is without a doubt the best version of the original story. A must buy for lovers of classic movies.
Rating: - One of my childhood memories.
The special effects and direction by Korda, Sabu's performance, the strange animal acts and Kipling plot combine to create a cinema classic for kids of all ages. Recommended for lovers of action/fantasy stories.
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