Showing posts with label Phil Harris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phil Harris. Show all posts

Sunday, September 4, 2016

Movie Review: The Jungle Book (Disney, 1967)

Disney presented the Jungle Book in 1967 as an animated presentation.  The took many of the Rubyard Kipling stories and wove them into a movie where Bagheera, the Panther is taking Mowgli, the man cub back to his own kind.  He protests, and runs into Baloo the bear and the run off to have adventures, but are caught by the  ape king.
This presentation includes the voice talents of Phil Harris as Baloo (very well done), Sebastian Cabot as Bagheera (his goody type of voice become grating after a while, Sterling Halloway as the snake Kaa (he almost even hypnotizes the audience). Louis Prima as the ape King Louie, and George Sanders and Shere Khan the tiger.  The ending is different than the remake, and I think I prefer the original.

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Disney Movie Review: *^Robin Hood (1973)

*^ Robin Hood.  I think this is probably the worse  Walt Disney movie ever made.  It is all based on cliche and nothing on character development.  Very little to redeem this movie.However I must admit Robin and Little John pretending to be street side gypsies as the rob Prince John is cut.  "Fortunes forecast!  Fortunes forecast!"  Peter Ustinov voices Prince John and King Richard, Phil Harris, Little John and Andy Devine, Friar Tuck.  Ken Curtis (Festus) and George Lindsey(Goober) portray two crazy vultures for comic relief.