Rudyard Kipling Filmography

Rudyard Kipling's Just So: How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin

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Synopsis: In this retelling of the Rudyard Kipling story, Jackson Gillman offers a version that combines art, photography, and computer graphics magic. Rudyard Kipling's Just So: How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin is faithful to the original story, in which a rhinoceros removes his skin in a heat wave. He has Read More

Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo

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Actors: Bill Williams, Jamie Williams, Bill Campbell, Roddy McDowall, David Paul Francis, Gulshan Grover

Synopsis: A prequel to The Jungle Book, this live-action kids' film follows the young wild boy Mowgli (Jamie Williams) as he's pursued through the late 19th century Indian jungle by a variety of "civilized" men, each seeking him for their own nefarious purposes. When Mowgli is spotted by the passengers on a Read More

Rudyard Kipling's Just So: How the Whale Got His Throat

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Synopsis: In his Just So series of stories, Rudyard Kipling drew inspiration from the tales told to him as a child in India, featuring animals at the beginning of time, when they had the power of speech. The timeless quality of the stories has kept children captivated for generations, and are retold in Read More

Rudyard Kipling's Just So: How the Camel Got His Hump

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Synopsis: This Rudyard Kipling classic tale is about the camel who refused to work, even as other animals around him did so. To requests for help, he merely replied, "Humph!" The Djinn warns that he might say this once too often, and this the camel does. He finds a large protuberance on his back, which the Read More

Rudyard Kipling's Just So: The Elephant's Child

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Synopsis: Rudyard Kipling's childhood in India provided the background for his Just So Stories series of stories for children. The tales, which all center around animals, were written and illustrated for the enjoyment of his daughter, the "best beloved" of the stories. In Rudyard Kipling's Just So: The Read More

Captains Courageous

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Actors: Robert Urich

Synopsis: Rudyard Kipling's classic novel is re-told in this made-for-television adaptation. Robert Urich stars as Troop, the captain of a schooner who rescues a child (Kenny Vadas) after he falls overboard from a passing ship. The boy -- a spoiled, orphaned, rich kid -- learns valuable lessons about life Read More

The Adventures of Mowgli

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Actors: Charlton Heston, Sam Elliott, Dana Delany

Synopsis: This Russian animated version of Rudyard Kipling's tale of a boy raised by wolves became one of the most popular children's films in its home country. Brought to the U.S. as part of the deal between Films by Jove and Russia's Soyuzmultfilm Studio, the picture was remastered and dubbed into Read More

Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book

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Actors: Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill, John Cleese

Synopsis: Twenty-seven years after turning one of Rudyard Kipling's best known works into a successful animated musical, Disney returned to the same source material for this live-action adventure, which hews slightly closer to the original source material. Mowgli (Sean Naeleli) is the five-year-old son of a Read More

They

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Actors: Vanessa Redgrave

Synopsis: Made for cable TV, They is based on a story by Rudyard Kipling. Patrick Bergen stars as a paper-pusher who cares more about his business than his family. He is brought up short when his young daughter dies. Deeply regretful that he never got to know the girl, Bergen relies upon blind psychic Read More

How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin & How the Camel Got His Hump

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Synopsis: Featuring two of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories as narrated by Jack Nicholson, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin / How the Camel Got His Hump is prime family entertainment. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Jungle Book

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Synopsis: This is one of many adaptations of the Rudyard Kipling story about Mowgli, a boy raised by wild animals. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

How the Leopard Got His Spots

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Synopsis: Produced by the Windham Hill/Rabbit Ears collaborative team, How the Leopard Got His Spots is an entertaining animated interpretation of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Story. Danny Glover provides the narration, while Lori Lohstoeter provides the illustrations. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Read More

Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, Vol. 2

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Synopsis: From the "Just So Stories" this collection of six animated famous tales include "how The Rhinoceros Got His Skin" and others too! ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Elephant's Child

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Actors: Jack Nicholson

Synopsis: Rudyard Kipling's imaginative explanation of how the elephant got its trunk is wryly read by Jack Nicholson in this wonderful children's video. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Captains Courageous

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Synopsis: Captains Courageous is Rudyard Kipling's story of a wealthy, spoiled teenager who matures into responsible manhood during an enforced voyage on a fishing schooner. The 1937 MGM version of the Kipling tale lowered the age of the protagonist to accommodate juvenile star Freddie Bartholomew, and Read More

The Man Who Would Be King

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Actors: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Shakira Caine

Synopsis: The Man Who Would Be King opens with author Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) working in his study. His solitude is broken by the arrival of a tattered, half-mad derelict, who is soon revealed to be his old acquaintance Peachy Carnahan (Michael Caine). As Kipling listens in rapt fascination Read More

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

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Synopsis: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was one of several animated TV specials based on the works of Rudyard Kipling, and produced and directed by Chuck Jones. The title character is a courageous mongoose, the unofficial pet of a British family living in India. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi has appointed himself protector of the Read More

Mowgli's Brothers

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Synopsis: Animator Chuck Jones helmed this tale, adapted from the work of Rudyard Kipling, of a boy raised by wolves. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Rudyard Kipling's Classic Stories

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Synopsis: This video is an animated version of three classic Rudyard Kipling tales. They are: "How the Elephant Got His Trunk," "How the Whale Got His Throat" and "How the First Letter Was Written." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Jungle Book

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Actors: Bruce Reitherman, Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway, J. Pat O'Malley

Synopsis: The final animated feature produced under the supervision of Walt Disney is a lively neo-swing musical, loosely based upon the tales of Rudyard Kipling. The story takes place in a tropical jungle where people are conspicuously absent. But one day Bagheera the Panther (voice of Sebastian Cabot) Read More

Kipling's Women

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Soldiers Three

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Actors: Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon, David Niven, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Allegedly based on a Rudyard Kipling novel, this draws most of its inspiration from the 1939 film made of Kipling's narrative poem Gunga Din. Stewart Granger, Robert Newton and Cyril Cusack play three boisterous English soldiers stationed on the Northern India frontier. Walter Pidgeon and David Niven Read More

Kim

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Actors: Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas, Thomas Gomez

Synopsis: Errol Flynn is top-billed in Kim, but the title character is played by Dean Stockwell. The son of an Irish sergeant, young Kim wanders through the streets and hills of Colonial India, disguised as a native boy. Kim's adventures include an episode with a horse trader (Errol Flynn) who is actually a Read More

The Jungle Book

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Actors: Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Frank Puglia, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: The Jungle Book isn't always faithful to the Rudyard Kipling original (in fact, it seldom is), but 1942 audiences swept up in the grandeur of the production values and the lush Technicolor photography didn't mind at all. Indian juvenile-star Sabu plays Mowgli, who having been lost in the jungle as Read More

The Light That Failed

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Actors: Ronald Colman, Walter Huston, Muriel Angelus, Ida Lupino, Dudley Digges

Synopsis: Based on a classic tale from Rudyard Kipling, this melodrama chronicles the desperate attempt of a painter to finish his greatest painting before he goes blind. His affliction is due to a war wound and his final project is to paint a portrait of London's most notorious prostitute. Trouble begins Read More

Captains Courageous

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Actors: Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Grapewin

Synopsis: A boy learns life-changing lessons about the importance of friendship and the dignity of labor in this adventure saga based on a story by Rudyard Kipling. Young Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew) is the working definition of a spoiled brat; the only child of a wealthy widowed businessman, Harvey Read More

Elephant Boy

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Actors: Sabu, Walter Hudd, Allan Jeayes, W.E. Holloway, Bruce Gordon

Synopsis: The unusual amalgam of documentary maven Robert Flaherty and pure-entertainment producer Zoltan Korda resulted in the 1937 money-spinner Elephant Boy. In his screen debut, eleven-year-old Indian-born Sabu plays the title character, a mahout named Toomai. When his father is killed by a tiger Read More

Wee Willie Winkie

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Actors: Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen, C. Aubrey Smith, June Lang, Michael Whalen

Synopsis: In this lovely John Ford film, Joyce Williams (June Lang) and her young daughter, Priscilla (Shirley Temple), travel to India to live on a British Army base with Joyce's father, Colonel Williams, Aubrey C. Smith). Once there, sweet, young Priscilla manages to win the love and affection of the Read More