This is a very successful Disney movie, with a very good boy-actor discovery in the lead. The animals were made to "speak" with great skill, and the death of heroic Akela was played down. It's a good children's film, with tons of adventure and no bad language or sex innuendo (there is no female). At the end of the picture, it dissolved to an old book, marked "The Jungle Book" and I thought fondly of old Rudyard telling his great tales in his home in Rottingdean, just a couple of miles from my subsequent home in Roedean. He certainly gave good value, and this movie lives up to Kipling's imagination. A fine picture, highly recommended.
Review of The Jungle Book
