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Narrated by Orson Wells, this animated cartoon is an adaptation of a short story titled "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" from The Jungle Book (1894) by Rudyard Kipling. The story focuses on an English family in India who discover a mongoose half drowned from a storm and decide to keep it. Rikki-Tikki soon finds himself confronted by two murderous cobras, Nag and Nagaina. When Nag is killed by Rikki after waiting to ambush the patriarch, Nagaina vows revenge for the death of her mate. Rikki must then come to the family's rescue again and rid Nagaina from the garden once and for all.

The story is a favorite of Kipling fans and is notable for its frightening and serious tone. Some epic features (heightened prosaic style; songs to the hero) add to the standard typology of hero defeating villain. It has often been anthologised and has also been published more than once as a short book in its own right.

The animated version first aired on CBS January 9, 1975 was directed by Chuck Jones and was released by Family Home Entertainment on both VHS and DVD. The DVD is also paired with another of Jones' cartoons, "Yankee Doodle Cricket"

One of my all time favorites.

Mine too.

childhood favorite of mine also. Was also quite fond of "The last Unicorn" too.

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The hell it did . . .

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I took my 3 year old daughter to a screening of RTT, somehow conveniently forgetting about the Hobbesian view of nature and the Peckinpah style of merciless killing.

"We MUSSSTT kill the child.
{Daughter's eyes widen}
"Yessssssssss, we sssssssshhhallll kill the family."
{Daddy's eyes widen}

She has weathered it well, though, and I imagine that she will be very ready when we finally visit Mumbai.

Saving this video from queue deletion, sending it to the top of the queue for one more try. Originally submitted on Thursday 14th December 2006 (save called by gold star member rickegee)

Also one of my favorite childhood videos. It made it on to my KidSift playlist, despite being "questionable" as I don't think it harmed me much.

Oh crap, I remember this cartoon.

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Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Monday 18th December 2006 (promotion called by gold star member firefly)

Many thanks for putting this one up. I first read the story when I was 6 years old over 60 years ago. Now I can show the video to my Grand kids, instead of reading them the story

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