This is a Movie adaption of a Tale written by the famous Rudyard Kipling a fellow of English Blood who was born and Raised in the foothills of the Himalayas in India. CINEMATOGRAPHY GREAT. The BEGINNING of the MOvie is a wonderful scene of Wildlife. This is a colored film but has the resolution of black and white, so I am guessing was quite a cinematographers delight in the day. IF you can get a good quality version and watch it on a really good flat TV or better yet an HD CRT, you will get the richness of the movie. SO much of it is dark spaces. MUSIC was very nice. NOt quite Indian, somewhat orchestral, and interesting mix of what seems like very original music, carries the film wonderfully. Folksy and majestic at the same time, fitting to the story!!ACTING very good. Solid acting , nothing stupendous, some nice subtle performances within. Most of this movie is carried by the story and the action. SCENES are generally small, and very cozy, almost like a stage play ,from a modern perspective. I get hungry for sandwiches when i watch this movie. for you in Cold Weather climates, watch this movie in the WINTER!!!This is an ACTION ADVENTURE movie with Political and Dramatic Strings, an Deservingly classic tale, and this movie is quite well made. CULTURALLY & ETHNICALLY sensitive people who object to a lot of stuff may have some internal issues to defeat to enjoy this movie, but other than that, it is an Epic Story made into a great adventure movie.T H A N K S F O R R E A D I N G ! ! ! !

A Near Flawless Fantasy Full of Magnificent Matte Work, Glorious Technicolor, an Intense Lead Performance from Sabu, Fantastic Animal Work, and an Almost Seamless Inclusion of a Talking Snake and Other Extravagances.The Movie was Not Ignored at the Oscars Winning Multiple Statues and the Movie was a Success at the Box Office. But Over the Years it Somehow got Ignored and Relegated to the Background and has been Overlooked and Pushed Aside by Inferior Movies with Similar Themes.To Add Insult to the Injurious Injustices, the Movie Fell into Public Domain and During the Home Video Revival of Old Movies it was Blasphemously Released on Highly Inferior Tapes and Discs that Diminished the Spectacular Production Values and Artistic Merit.Then there was the Disney Animated Version that also Made This Somehow Irrelevant and the Film has been in the Netherlands of the Public Consciousness and Hardly Well Known. But it is a Wonderful Achievement and Deserves to be Rediscovered and Brought Back and Regarded as a Masterpiece of Movie Making and Marvelous Entertainment for All Ages.

I wanted to watch this movie from long, and the movie was on my DVD shelf from past since June 2011, right when i heard about the protagonist on a local newspaper. Sabu, who hails from Mysore, India was the first Indian to make it big in Hollywood. Yet, his descendents back in India are leading a poor life. The movie should be one like a King Kong of those time. The screenplay is realistic, you would find the movie to be an extraordinary being it made 70 years ago when there were no computers to graphic. My little nephew like the movie when the wild animals were there!The film is also a mixture of Indian Culture, it again proves that India is a land of Wonders! Those traditional beliefs, which oppose people movements, those supernatural guards all just elevate your thinking on India. This is be true even now in India, as there was vast treasure found recently beneath the temple. You can call it an amazing treasure hunt movie.One suggestion, i saw as a VHS print, but nowadays DVDs are available. Check in a DVD to view in a better quality.

"The Jungle Book" is one of the earliest animal movies made. The Tarzan movies that began in the 1930s had some animals, but this film was the first that showed the public video scenes of numerous jungle creatures. And, it was done in full color in 1942. Unless one lived in a big city that had a zoo in the early to mid-20th century, you weren't able to see live jungle animals. For most children growing up in those years, the only pictures of tigers, elephants, monkeys and crocodiles one saw were those in books or National Geographic magazine. So, this film was the first moving picture of live animals that many people saw. Later, of course, TV would add to the exposure, and animal theme parks would start to proliferate – after Disneyland opened in 1957.In the first six decades of the 20th century, Rudyard Kipling ruled large for his stories with many animals that inhabited the jungles of India. I remember reading "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" and some other Kipling stories as a child. Kipling was a master story teller, and he wrote in numerous forms – novels, short stories, poems. His best works were adventure novels and children's books. Kipling's works were natural sources for screenplays with which to make movies. Indeed, some of these titles will loom large to movie buffs. Besides "The Jungle Book" in 1942, Kipling's "Captains Courageous" was made into a film in 1937. The MGM film starred Spencer Tracy and Freddie Bartholomew. It earned Tracy his first Oscar and received three more Academy Award nominations. Hallmark produced a TV movie based on the story in 1996, starring Robert Urich and Kenny Vadas. In 1939, RKO made "Gunga Din," from Kipling's poem of the same title. It starred Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. That received an Oscar nomination for best black and white cinematography. In 1950, Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell and Paul Lukas starred in another Kipling story, "Kim," which was made by MGM. A TV version of that story was made by London Films in 1984, and aired on CBS in the U.S. It starred Peter O'Toole. In 1975, Sean Connery and Michael Caine starred in "The Man Who Would be King," an adventure story set in a fictitious middle Asian country. Kipling knew a number of other prominent writers of his time – T.S. Eliot, George Orwell, Mark Twain, and some who became friends – Henry James and Arthur Conan Doyle. Many in the field of literature considered Kipling the best British writer and story teller of his time, an accolade shared by much of the public as well. In 1907 he became the first writer of English to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and he remains the youngest person (at age 41) ever to receive that award. Born in India, Kipling traveled a great deal and lived in many different places, including more than four years in the Untied States. It was during that time, living in Vermont, that he wrote the Jungle books, his novel, "Captains Courageous," and another volume of poetry. He met many heads of state, and befriended President Theodore Roosevelt.