

The final movie was a children's musical full of cheerfully drawn talking animals, a happy tribe whose most predatory members were more amusing than scary and whose most delightful included a swinging orangutan voiced by Louis Prima and a quartet of vultures who sounded suspiciously like the Beatles.

The story goes that when the creative team first showed him the script and music, he found it too dark and encouraged the artists to further sweeten their source material, the stories by English writer Rudyard Kipling. The 1967 animated version of The Jungle Book was the last Disney movie made during Walt Disney's lifetime.
