Jungle Book Page #2

Synopsis: Teenaged Mowgli, who was raised by wolves, appears in a village in India and is adopted by Messua. Mowgli learns human language and some human ways quickly, though keeping jungle ideas. Influential Merchant Buldeo is bigoted against 'beasts' including Mowgli; not so Buldeo's pretty daughter, whom Mowgli takes on a jungle tour where they find a treasure, setting the evil of human greed in motion.
Director(s): Zoltan Korda
Production: Gravitas
  Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 1 win.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
APPROVED
Year:
1942
108 min
615 Views


like to have a son like him

But my Natu was soft and plump

Mistress, how could he be plump

running naked in the woods

I warning all, his has the evil eye.

No Buldeo, he's some poor lost man

Not like my own, but, I'm a lonely woman

and if you would let me

I will shelter him

for some other woman who lost her son

He is a wolf, let one in

and all will follow

He will bring dawn the jungle upon us

but the jungle is sacred,

the jungle is restore Buldeo

take this boy to your house my sister

and copy little harder for money

to get Natu and me

for have save Natu life on this day

Release Him!

wait, are you going turn this devil lost

before I can protect you

A gun...Buldeo don't

a gun

Buldeo

Now release him

No, no

boy....boy

would you come with me

Come,...come

Dawn upon our heads even before the temple

We have call the curse of the beast

No more shall we prosper

The wild pig will trample dawn our vines

The Tiger will short our streets

We have open our doors to the devil

Don't look upon evil

Majala

Get home to bed

At least I can keep my own daughter from harm

Expect, you bark, anyway to treat

one who comes to live with us

I remember the day I give

the first little shoes to my Natu

Wolf, wolf boy

Those feet had never want shoes

No, youre not my son

But you look very much like my son Natu

Natu call me mother

Mother,

Mother

What did the wolfs call you.

Mmou...ugli,

Mowgli, The little frog

Yes you are like a little frog to them

the beast of the jungle

And so are Mowgli to me

Come, come on

For months, and months after that night

Mowgli was busy learning the ways,

language and costumes of men

What are you doing

you are like a little panther

I thought someone fund the hiding place

Hiding place

What is this

Money.

What is it for?

What is money for!,

to protect us from hunger and cold

you may live in a hole like a cobra

No, if we need a bag of rice

I give this to the merchandise in the square

He give us the rice

what a fool that much he must be

Will the man park give us anything for this

Yes...buy you give me a tooth

A tooth you have all your teeth

No, a sharp tooth

Oh, a knife! ... yes

A knife tooth like Tiger's knife

What need have you for a knife

To sink in the throat of my enemies

Your enemy, you talk about Akela

the father wolf

And Raksha the mother wolf

and how much better this in the jungle

with all your friends, no,

who could be your enemy

Shere Khan, the tiger

Tell Buldeo to sell you a knife

give him the money

I shall have a tooth

I shall have a tooth

My father says that I

mustnt speak to you

What happen to him

My father shooter

We missed you six months ago

He was Balu's cousin

He has no men for an enemy

But my father kills any bear he sees

Why?

Because he is a great hunter

He killed them even when his not hungry

Hungry we dont eat bears

Then why did he bring him here

To show how brave he is

and my father is very brave to kill that tiger

That old tiger

He lived on lizards and rats

he was too old to hunt rabbits

He must die in his sleep

I see you'll be kill a bear and a tiger in one shoot

I kill both cousins

I had fishing with them

Fishing with a bear, how can be a fisher bear

He looks in the river wishes

the fish he wants then pick it up

Didn't I tell you not to speak with this thing

I told you to keep way from this house

These why I'm here to talk to you

to say I want a tooth

Tooth....yes

this is the tooth I want

Put that knife dawn before a shoot trough you

Then you put my head on the wall

like the old Khan there

But I'll would sting as I die

and give this back to you

Aha, you are not in the jungle boy

No, I'm not in the jungle....Buldeo

I'm with the men buck,

but I'm not a man

What are you boy.

I was until now a cub

but now I have my Tooth

I can run in the jungle as I please

I'm a wolf

If you have a knife

would you go back to the jungle

In that case is yours

for two Roans

Messua give three, one two three

there three is more than two

More than two, now get out of my house

Fill Shere Khan is for you

Wont you be afraid to go back to the jungle

Afraid of the jungle I'm in the Wolf path

there are my friends.

Then why did you buy a knife

For Shere Khan the Tiger, this is for him.

He drove me out of the jungle.

He went away far of

But he sword he would lay my bones

in the river when he return

I also need a little pride,

I have told the wolf I would kill him

You can speak their tongue

you can speak to animals

Can you talk to Rama

the great red cow

Rama is a dam slave she has been

with the men beck for so long

She cannot talk to anyone

Can you speak with him

And what did he say,

Don't you know what the Monkey

people always say

We the Monkey people are the

greatest folk in all the jungle

We know this is true because

we always say it is true.

Mowgli would you let me hear you talk to the wolfs

Yes,....tonight when the moon raises

Are you afraid, lets go

Is a Wolf, hear can he say?

We dawn the water

winding tree, jungle babe we go with thee

they haven't give the babe of the jungle

We be as one blood, you and I

We be as one blood, you and I,

come Mowgli, come

Hi, I, Hati

I'm with the men beck now

see I have a tooth, I chopper the Tiger tooth

He said that Shere Khan is far away

But I have better take care and hide

when he's come back here

Hati will you warm me when

he is come back to our jungle

Thank you brothers, then we shall see

who's bones would be lay in the river

Hold on tight

Bagheera

Mowgli

Your claws are sharp and strong,

but not as good as mine

Look

Who is men but I should a care for his

ways and his troubles

I am Mowgli of the jungle back in the night

Now that I have my tooth

who should stay when I straight.

Mowgli come back I'm afraid.

There, mighty hunters greater than

your father who kill everything

Until the jungle kill tem

Why did they go away

Why did I go away

Because I was a man a cub

afraid of the Tiger

The jungle knew I was afraid,

and cast me out

Was the king of palace

King, what is the king

Oh Mowgli you know so much,

and yet you know so little

This was a great whole city,

city with hundreds of elephants

with thousands of horses and

thousands and thousands of men

and them all belong to a great King

And where is this great king now.

Where is he now.

Majala....

Mowgli......

Majala are you hurt

No, I'm all right

This is the Treasure King

Look

Earrings, pearls

This is like the stuff I gave

Buldeo for my tooth

This stuff that passes from hand to hand

and never goes warmer

Only this is now,

and that was brown

Lets get back to the light

This pebbles are not good to eat

There is nothing here, nothing

I am nothing

Father of Cobra's we be as

one blood You and I

She is only a little cub from the men peck.

She mean no harm

Who are that with a

Knife and a stick tongue

Mowgli they call me I am from the jungle

the wolf are my people.

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Laurence Stallings

Laurence Tucker Stallings (November 25, 1894 - February 28, 1968) was an American playwright, screenwriter, lyricist, literary critic, journalist, novelist, and photographer. Best known for his collaboration with Maxwell Anderson on the 1924 play What Price Glory, Stallings also produced a groundbreaking autobiographical novel, Plumes, about his service in World War I, and published an award-winning book of photographs, The First World War: A Photographic History. more…

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