Mowgli's Brothers (1977)

Directed by

Chuck Jones

Genre

animation

Country

United States

Runtime

25 min

Rated

NR

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young boy named Mowgli is adopted by a wolf pack in the Indian jungle. They raise him as one of their own cubs.

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What happens

Mowgli's Brothers is a 1976 television animated special directed by American animator Chuck Jones. It is based on the first chapter of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. The special was narrated by Roddy McDowall, who also performs the voices of all the male characters in the film. June Foray was the voice of Raksha, the Mother Wolf. It originally aired on CBS on February 11, 1976. The special was released on VHS, Betamax, and Laserdisc by Family Home Entertainment in 1985, and was released on VHS again in 1999 and on DVD in 2002 and 2007 by Lionsgate. Jones also directed adaptations of two other The Jungle Book stories, "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" and "The White Seal", in 1975. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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