Here you can find worksheets and activities for teaching The Jungle Book to kids, teenagers or adults, beginner intermediate or advanced levels. Bagheera and Baloo arrive to rescue Mowgli and in the ensuing chaos, King Louies palace is demolished to rubble. Bagheera speaks to Baloo that night and convinces him that the jungle will never be safe for Mowgli so long as Shere Khan is there. In the morning, Baloo reluctantly explains to Mowgli that the Man Village is best for the boy, but Mowgli accuses him of breaking his promise and runs away. As Baloo sets off in search of Mowgli, Bagheera rallies the help of Hathi and his patrol. However, Shere Khan himself, who was eavesdropping on Bagheera and Hathis conversation, is now determined to hunt and kill Mowgli himself. Meanwhile, Mowgli has encountered Kaa once again, but thanks to the unwitting intervention of the suspicious Shere Khan, Mowgli escapes. As a storm gathers, a depressed Mowgli encounters a group of friendly vultures who accept Mowgli as a fellow outcast. Shere Khan appears shortly after, scaring off the vultures and confronting Mowgli. Baloo rushes to the rescue and tries to keep Shere Khan away from Mowgli, but is injured. When lightning strikes a nearby tree and sets it ablaze, the vultures swoop in to distract Shere Khan while Mowgli gathers flaming branches and ties them to Shere Khans tail. Terrified of fire, the tiger panics and runs off. Bagheera and Baloo take Mowgli to the edge of the Man Village, but Mowgli is still hesitant to go there. His mind soon changes when he is smitten by a beautiful young girl from the village who is coming down by the riverside to fetch water. After noticing Mowgli, she accidentally drops her water pot. Mowgli retrieves it for her and follows her into the Man Village. After Mowgli chooses to stay in the Man Village, Baloo and Bagheera decide to head home, content that Mowgli is safe and happy with his own kind. Cast. Bruce Reitherman as Mowgli, an orphaned boy, commonly referred to as man cub by the other characters. Phil Harris as Baloo, a sloth bear who leads a carefree life and believes in letting the good things in life come by themselves. Sebastian Cabot as Bagheera, a serious black panther who is determined to take Mowgli back to the village and disapproves of Baloos carefree approach to life. Louis Prima as King Louie, an orangutan who wants to be a human, and wants Mowgli to teach him how to make fire. George Sanders as Shere Khan, an intelligent and sophisticated yet merciless Bengal tiger who hates all humans for fear of their guns and fire and wants to kill Mowgli. Sterling Holloway as Kaa, an Indian python who also seeks Mowgli as prey, but comically fails each time he attempts to eat him. J. Pat OMalley as Colonel Hathi the Indian elephantBuzzie the Vulture. Verna Felton as Winifred, Colonel Hathis wife. Clint Howard as Junior, Colonel Hathis son. Chad Stuart as Flaps the Vulture. Lord Tim Hudson as Dizzie the Vulture. John Abbott as Akela the Indian wolf. Ben Wright as Rama the Father Wolf. Darleen Carr as The Human Girl. Leo De Lyon as Flunkey the LangurHal Smith as The Slob Elephantalph Wright as The Gloomy Elephantigby Wolfe as Ziggy the Vultureill Skiles and Pete Henderson as Monkeyssterisks mark actors listed in the opening credits as Additional Voices. Download Doctor Who: The Infinite Quest For Free. Production. Development and writing. The Jungle Book was the final film produced by Walt Disney before his death in 1. After The Sword in the Stone was released, storyman Bill Peet claimed to Walt Disney that we the animation department can do more interesting animal characters and suggested that Rudyard Kiplings The Jungle Book could be used for the studios next film. Disney agreed and Peet created an original treatment, with little supervision, as he had done with One Hundred and One Dalmatians and The Sword in the Stone. However, after the disappointing reaction to The Sword in the Stone, Walt Disney decided to become more involved in the story than he had been with the past two films,9 with his nephew Roy E. Disney saying that he certainly influenced everything about it. With Jungle Book, he obviously got hooked on the jungle and the characters that lived there. Peet decided to follow closely the dramatic, dark, and sinister tone of Kiplings book, which is about the struggles between animals and man. However, the films writers decided to make the story more straightforward, as the novel is very episodic, with Mowgli going back and forth from the jungle to the Man Village, and Peet felt that Mowgli returning to the Man Village should be the ending for the film. Following suggestions, Peet also created two original characters The human girl for which Mowgli falls in love, as the animators considered that falling in love would be the best excuse for Mowgli to leave the jungle and Louie, king of the monkeys. Louie was a less comical character, enslaving Mowgli trying to get the boy to teach him to make fire. The orangutan would also show a plot point borrowed from The Second Jungle Book, gold and jewels under his ruins after Mowgli got to the man village, a poacher would drag the boy back to the ruins in search for the treasure. Disney was not pleased with how the story was turning out, as he felt it was too dark for family viewing and insisted on script changes. Peet refused, and after a long argument, Peet left the Disney studio in January 1.