He is quite good in the Jungle Book (but he was ALWAYS good) there being more humor than fact in John Prine's song "Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone" :īut I think Sabu would've gotten a giggle from it. Sabi's last film was A TIGER WALKS for DISNEY (he died of a heart attack in December of 1963, so he never got to see the finished film which wasn't released until 1964. And that's Rosemary deCamp as "Messua" (Mowgli's human mother) she was also the mother in the original William Castle 1960 classic 13 GHOSTS. It's a little difficult to spot "Dick Tracy" (Ralph Byrd) under the "Durga" makeup, but he's there. So much so that the Cub Scouts of America are set up based on these stories. There are many classic Kipling tales in the two Jungle Books that are NOT about Mowgli "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", "The White Seal", "The Miracle of Purun Bhagat", but it is the Mowgli stories that really caught the imagination of the public. This was the second time he'd played a role based on a Kipling story, incidentally-the first time was in 1937's ELEPHANT BOY (based on another short story from the FIRST "Jungle Book" (this one NOT about Mowgli) called "Toomai of the Elephants. Sabu (full name Sabu Dastagir.MAYBE there's some controversy about that-his BROTHER may have been Sabu Dastagir while HE was really Selar Shaykh Sabu-but either way he's a SABU) was one good looking guy when he was young (which may have helped attract me to this movie.leave us face it, it didn't HURT)was 18 when he made THE JUNGLE BOOK. And the "Just So Stories" and "Puck of Pook's Hill" and.ok I know it's consdiered uncool to actually read anything other than Harry Potter these days so I'll just leave it there. I have loved this movie for MANY decades, just as I loved both of the "jungle Books" by Rudyard Kipling.
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