Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book is a 1994 Disney film based on the Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, and is a live-action remake of the 1967 film The Jungle Book. This time, the animals do not speak. The film stars Jason Scott Lee as Mowgli and Cary Elwes as his main adversary. It was directed by Stephen Sommers. The original music score was composed by Basil Poledouris.

Plot
Nathoo is an Indian tour guide. He along with his son five year old Mowgli are guiding a tour of the jungle for Colenol Brydon. Accompanying Brydon is his five year old daughter Kitty, his friend Dr. Plumford and a group of British soldiers. The group soon learn that Shere Khan the tiger is on the move so travel with caution. That night, Shere Khan attacks their camp, killing Nathoo and two of Brydon's men. Mowgli and his pet wolf cub are lost in the confusion. The next day, they are found by Bagheera the panther. Bagheera leads them to the wolf pack, who accept them as their new family members. Mowgli also meets Baloo the bear cub and befriends him. Many years pass and Mowgli grows up bonding with his new animal friends and totally forgets that he is a man. In the jungle, Mowgli discovers a place called Monkey city which has loads of treasure. It is often said that men who go there never return. Mowgli steals a dagger from Monkey city.

Mowgli soon comes across Kitty - he does not recognise her and she does not recognise him. Kitty is in love with an arrogant soldier named Captain Boone. Mowgli enters the man village in search of Kitty. Boone and his men have Mowgli put in prison. Boone discovers the dagger Mowgli has and believes Mowgli can show him the way to more treasure. Kitty and Dr. Plumford realise that the boy who is in prison is in fact Mowgli - they decide to help him re-enter man's world. The more Mowgli learns about man's world, the more he learns about its cruel side. Boone tries to persuade Mowgli to take him to the treasure, but Mowgli refuses saying that only men who keep the jungle law are allowed to go. Boone asks Kitty to marry him - she reluctantly accepts. Kitty's father announces the engagement and Mowgli leaves heartbroken. Kitty now realises that she cannot marry Boone - as a result her father sends her back to England. Meanwhile, Boone and his men, Saergant Harley, Wilkins, Buldeo and Tabaqui decide to capture Mowgli in order to reach the treasure. They almost capture him but Baloo comes in the way and is shot. The men then round up some bandits and ambush Brydon, Kitty and Dr. Plumford but Mowgli soon arrives with Bagheera and the wolf pack who scare most of their bandits off. Brydon is injured and the men ask Mowgli to show them where the treasure is if Kitty and Brydon are to survive.

Mowgli escapes the next day with the help of Bagheera. Boone, Kitty and the men go after in leaving Brydon in the camp alone. Mowgli sends Brydon back to the village on an elephant and promises to bring Kitty back. One by one, Boone's men are killed. Harley drowns in quicksand, Tabaqui falls off a cliff whilst attempting to kill Mowgli, Wilkins is mauled by Shere Khan and Buldeo is buried alive in Monkey city. In the end, only Boone, Kitty and Mowgli reach the treasure. Boone and Mowgli engage in a fight - Mowgli eventually stabs Boone in the arm. Mowgli and Kitty run away whilst Boone gathers up as much treasure as he can find. However, soon Kaa the python makes Boone fall into the water, where he sees skeletons, who presumibly belong to men who have previously come to seek the treasure - Kaa eats Boone alive. As Mowgli and Kitty leave, they are ambushed by Shere Khan. Mowgli and Shere Khan stare each other down and eventually Shere Khan sees Mowgli as a creature of the jungle (fulfilling a dream Mowgli had as a child). When Mowgli and Kitty arrive back in the jungle, they are delighted to be reunited with Brydon and Baloo, both of whom were cured by Dr. Plumford. They share a passionate kiss under a waterfall and Mowgli is made lord of the jungle.

Main cast

 * Jason Scott Lee - Mowgli
 * Cary Elwes - Captain William Boone
 * Lena Headey - Katherine "Kitty" Brydon
 * Sam Neill - Colonel Geoffrey Brydon
 * John Cleese - Dr. Julius Plumford[4]
 * Jason Flemyng - Lt. John Wilkins
 * Ron Donachie - Sgt. Harley
 * Sean Naegeli - Mowgli, age 5
 * Joanna Wolff - Kitty Brydon, age 5
 * Stefan Kalipha - Buldeo
 * Anirudh Agarwal - Tabaqui
 * Liza Walker - Alice
 * Rachel Robertson - Rose
 * <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Natalie Morse - Margareta

Trained animals
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Kaa is portrayed by both a computer-generated and a real anaconda. Other trained animals were monkeys, elephants, camel, horses, zebu, and wolves.
 * <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Baloo - Casey- A male black bear.
 * <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Bagheera - Shadow- A male black leopard.
 * <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Grey Brother - Shannon- A female grey wolf.
 * <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">King Louie - Lowell- A male Bornean orangutan.
 * <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Shere Khan - Bombay- A male Bengal tiger owned by Randy Miller.

Production
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Filming took place in India (Bombay and Jodhpur) and parts of the southern United States (South Carolina and Tennessee).

Game
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">The movie was adaptated into a 1996 game, which includes clips from the film, while providing an original story and new characters.

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">The game follows the player in his/her quest to save the jungle. Soldiers have stolen King Louie's crown and the player must recover it to prevent the jungle from losing its magic. The player is aided by an Scotsman named Ilgwom ("Mowgli" spelled backwards) and his chimpanzee, Lahtee, while also guided by a spirit made from Mowgli's memories.