The next morning, Harley catches Mowgli escaping with the aid of Bagheera and chases him, only to fall into quicksand and drown, despite Wilkins' attempts to save him. Because of this, Mowgli decides to escape. That night, the group learn Shere Khan is hunting them due to their shooting of Baloo. Even though Mowgli, along with Bagheera, Grey Brother, and the rest of the wolves, attack and kill most of the bandits, Buldeo manages to capture Kitty and Brydon and hands them over to Boone and his men, who plan to use them as blackmail: If Mowgli leads them to the treasure, Kitty and her father shall live. Buldeo and the bandits then ambush Kitty and Brydon, who is shot and wounded in the process. Wilkins and Boone shoot Baloo when he comes to Mowgli's defense, much to Mowgli's distress. The men recruit a third henchman, Sergeant Harley, and gather some bandits to capture Mowgli in order to find out where the treasure is. Meanwhile, Boone and his associate Lieutenant Wilkins team up with Buldeo and Tabaqui, Boone's guide. After Boone's cruel treatment of Mowgli, Kitty realizes she cannot marry Boone, so she decides to go back to England to get away from him. Around this time, after Boone and his men publicly humiliate him, Mowgli returns to the jungle as he does not feel at home in the village. Boone later proposes to Kitty, although she is hesitant to concede. Eventually, Boone convinces Mowgli to tell him of Monkey City and the treasure hoard that it holds, but Mowgli refrains from revealing its location to Boone upon realizing his lack of respect for the jungle. In doing so, Mowgli and Kitty fall in love, much to Boone's displeasure. Julius Plumford, a good friend of Brydon's, decide that they must reintroduce Mowgli to civilization. Boone and his men manage to capture Mowgli and find the dagger from Monkey City in his possession. Kitty sees that Mowgli is wearing her mother's bracelet and realizes who he is. Infatuated with her, Mowgli travels to Kitty's village and enters her home, alerting the guards. Kitty is also in a relationship with one of Brydon's soldiers, Captain William Boone. She and Mowgli meet again, but neither recognize the other. Winning King Louie's respect, Mowgli keeps the dagger as a trophy.Įlsewhere, Kitty and Colonel Brydon are still stationed in India. Forced to fight for his life, Mowgli succeeds in wounding the snake with a golden dagger that he retrieves from the treasure horde. Twenty years later, Mowgli, now an adult, discovers Monkey City, a legendary ancient city filled with treasure belonging to King Louie the orangutan, who has his treasure guarded by Kaa the python. Mowgli also befriends a bear cub named Baloo. Mowgli is taken by Bagheera, a gentle black panther, to the wolf pack. In the confusion, Mowgli is lost in the jungle with his pet wolf cub, Grey Brother, and Brydon and his men presume him killed. He succeeds in killing the two soldiers, but when he tries to kill Buldeo, Nathoo defends him and is subsequently mauled to death by Shere Khan. Mowgli tells Nathoo of a dream where he faced Shere Khan and showed no fear, becoming a tiger himself. That night, Kitty gives Mowgli her late mother's bracelet as a gift. Local hunter Buldeo and two soldiers kill several animals for sport, which enrages Shere Khan, a tiger who serves as the jungle's keeper, and he begins to pursue the tour group. On one of his tours, he leads Colonel Geoffrey Brydon and his men, as well as Brydon's 5-year-old daughter Katherine nicknamed Kitty. In 1887, during the British Raj in India, Mowgli is the 5-year-old son of the widowed Nathoo, whose wife died in childbirth. Released on Christmas Day, December 25, 1994, by Walt Disney Pictures, the film received generally positive reviews and grossed $43.2 million in theaters against a $30 million budget.Īnother live-action adaptation, titled The Jungle Book was released in 2016, being a closer adaptation to both the 1967 animated film and Rudyard Kipling's book. In this version, the animals do not speak. The film stars Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill, John Cleese, and introducing Jason Flemyng. It is the second film adaptation by The Walt Disney Company of the Mowgli stories from The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895) by Rudyard Kipling and the first live-action adaptation of Walt Disney's animated film of the same name from 1967. Feldman and Raju Patel, from a story by Ronald Yanover and Mark Geldman. Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, simply known as The Jungle Book, is a 1994 live-action American adventure film co-written and directed by Stephen Sommers, produced by Edward S.
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