Walt Disney did away with Rudyard Kipling's original text for his classic 1967 version of The Jungle Book. Still, this light-hearted musical toon about a mop-topped boy raised in the jungle by wolves ...

THE JUNGLE BOOK (1967) was Disney’s 19th animated feature and the last that Walt himself had a hand in, though it wasn’t released in theaters until nearly a year after his death.Sebastian Cabot, Phil ...

While keeping the bare necessities of the sublime 1967 original, the jungle in Jon Favreau’s thrilling, computer-enhanced update is a far more hostile place: bristling, screeching, thundering — you ...

JON FAVREAU isn’t paying lip service when he says he drew on Walt Disney’s example. Uncle Walt embraced cutting-edge technology in bringing all those timeless fairy tales and myths to a new generation ...

Walt Disney did away with Rudyard Kipling's original text for his classic 1967 version of The Jungle Book. Still, this light-hearted musical toon about a mop-topped boy raised in the jungle by wolves ...

DVD Review: “The Jungle Book (40th Anniversary Platinum Edition)” (Walt Disney Home Entertainment. 1967/2007. 2 Discs. Color. Widescreen. 78 Minutes. Rated G. Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman).