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| The Jungle Book | |
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| Directed by | Wolfgang Reitherman |
| Story by | |
| Based on | The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
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| Music by | George Bruns |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista Distribution |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4 million[1] |
| Box office | $378 million[2] |
The Jungle Book is a 1967 American animated musical adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution. Based very loosely on the "Mowgli" stories from Rudyard Kipling's 1894 book of the same name, it is the final animated feature film to be produced by Walt Disney, who died during its production.[3][4][5] It was directed by Wolfgang Reitherman and written by Larry Clemmons, Ralph Wright, Ken Anderson, and Vance Gerry. Featuring the voices of Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, George Sanders, and Sterling Holloway, the film's plot follows Mowgli, a feral child raised in the Indian jungle by wolves, as his friends, Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, try to convince him to leave the jungle before the ruthless tiger Shere Khan arrives.
The early versions of both the screenplay and the soundtrack followed Kipling's work more closely, with a dramatic, dark, and sinister tone, which Disney did not want in his family film, leading to writer Bill Peet and songwriter Terry Gilkyson being replaced.
The Jungle Book was released on October 18, 1967, to positive reception, with acclaim for its soundtrack, featuring five songs by the Sherman Brothers and one by Gilkyson, "The Bare Necessities". With a gross of $23.8 million worldwide, the film initially became Disney's second-highest-grossing animated film in the United States and Canada,[6] the ninth-highest-grossing film of 1967, and was also successful during its re-releases. The film was also successful throughout the world, becoming Germany's highest-grossing film by number of admissions.[7] Disney released a live-action adaptation in 1994 and an animated sequel, The Jungle Book 2, in 2003; a live-action/animated hybrid remake directed by Jon Favreau was released in 2016, with a sequel to that film in development.
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- ^ Mallory, Michael; D'Alessandro, Anthony (October 27, 2003). "Tooned in: Disney's ani classics set the bar and lit the way for future generations". Variety. Archived from the original on October 13, 2022. Retrieved June 4, 2023 – via The Free Library.
- ^ Trimborn, Harry (December 16, 1966). "Wizard of Fantasy Walt Disney Dies". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 3, 2024.
- ^ Cooke, Alistair (December 16, 2011). "The death of Walt Disney — folk hero". The Guardian. Retrieved November 3, 2024.
- ^ "Walt Disney, 65, Dies on Coast". The New York Times. December 16, 1966.
- ^ "All-Time Box Office Champs". Variety. January 6, 1971. p. 12.
- ^ Scott Roxborough (April 22, 2016). "Why Disney's Original 'Jungle Book' Is Germany's Biggest Film of All Time". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on April 23, 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2016.