Jungle Book (1942 film)
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| Jungle Book | |
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| Directed by | Zoltan Korda |
| Produced by | Alexander Korda |
| Written by | Rudyard Kipling Laurence Stallings |
| Starring | Sabu |
| Music by | Miklós Rózsa |
| Cinematography | Lee Garmes W. Howard Greene |
| Distributed by | Alexander Korda Films |
| Release date(s) | 1942 |
| Running time | 108 min. |
| Language | English |
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- For other uses, see The Jungle Book (disambiguation).
Jungle Book is an American color 1942 action/adventure film based on the Rudyard Kipling novel, The Jungle Book. The film was directed by Zoltán Korda based on a screeplay adaptation by Laurence Stallings. The cinematography was by Lee Garmes and W. Howard Greene and music by Miklós Rózsa.
The film was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color for the director's brother, Vincent Korda and creative partner Julia Heron.
In 1943 the film's score was re-recorded with narration by Sabu and became the first commercial recording of a U.S. film score to be released. [1]
[edit] Primary cast
- Sabu : Mowgli
- Joseph Calleia : Buldeo
- John Qualen : The barber
- Frank Puglia : The pundit
[edit] External links
- Jungle Book at the Internet Movie Database
- Free public domain download of Jungle Book at Internet Archive
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