Sebastian Cabot credited as playing...
Bagheera the Panther
- Mowgli: Oh, Baloo, I wanna stay with you.
- Baloo: Certainly, you do.
- Bagheera: Oh? And just how do you think he will survive?
- Baloo: "How do you think he will... " What do you mean how do you think he... He's with me, ain't he? And I'll learn him all I know.
- Bagheera: [sarcastic] Oh? That shouldn't take too long.
- Mowgli: [to the unconscious Baloo] Baloo, get up. Oh, please get up.
- Bagheera: Mowgli, try to understand.
- Mowgli: Bagheera, what's the matter with him?
- Bagheera: You've got to be brave, like Baloo was.
- Mowgli: You... you don't mean... Oh, no. Baloo.
- Bagheera: Now, now. I know how you feel. But you must remember, Mowgli. Greater love hath no one than he who lays down his life for his friend.
- [At this point, Baloo starts waking up, unbeknownst to Bagheera and Mowgli]
- Bagheera: Whenever great deeds are remembered in this jungle, one name will stand above all others: our friend, Baloo the bear.
- [Baloo is so moved by this that he starts crying]
- Baloo: [sniffing] He's cracking me up.
- Bagheera: The memory of Baloo's sacrifice and bravery will forever be engraved on our saddened hearts.
- Baloo: Beautiful.
- Bagheera: This spot where Baloo fell will always be a hallowed place in the jungle, for there lies one of nature's noblest creatures.
- Baloo: I wish my mother could have heard this.
- Bagheera: It's best we leave now. Come along, man-cub.
- Baloo: [suddenly wide awake] Hey, don't stop now, Baggy, you're doing great! There's more, lots more!
- Bagheera: [shocked and angry] Why, you big fraud! You-you-you four-flusher! I-I'm fed up!...
- Mowgli: [ecstatic] Baloo! You're all right!
- Baloo: Who, me? Sure I am. Never felt better.
- Baloo: [singing] Now when you pick a pawpaw / Or a prickly pear / And you prick a raw paw / Well, next time, beware! / Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw / When you pick a pear try to use the claw / But you don't need to use the claw / When you pick a pear of the big pawpaw / Have I given you a clue?
- Mowgli: Golly, thanks, Baloo.
- Bagheera: Pawpaw, ha! Of all the silly gibberish.
- Baloo: [tugging on Bagheera's tail] C'mon, Baggy, get with the beat.
- Kaa: [after being hit by Bagheera] Ooh, my s-s-sinus. You have just made a s-s-s-serious mistake, my friend. A very s-s-s-stupid...
- Bagheera: N-n-now, Kaa, I was...
- Kaa: ...mis-s-stake. Look me in the eye when I'm speaking to you.
- Bagheera: [has one eye closed to avoid being hypnotized] No, please, Kaa...
- Kaa: Both eyes, if you please.
- [Bagheera is fully hypnotized]
- Kaa: You have just s-s-sealed your doom.
- [just as Kaa is about to eat Bagheera, Mowgli pushes Kaa's body off the tree; he falls in a pile on the ground]
- Bagheera: Baloo, birds of a feather should flock together. You wouldn't marry a panther now, would you?
- Baloo: I don't know.
- [laughs]
- Baloo: Come to think of it, no panther has ever asked me. Ha-ha.
- Bagheera: [getting irritated] Baloo, you've got to be serious...
- Baloo: Oh, stop worrying, Baggy! Stop worrying! I'll take care of him.
- Bagheera: [sarcastic] Yes, like you did when the monkeys kidnapped him, huh?
- Baloo: Can't a guy make one mistake?
- Bagheera: [sternly] Not in the jungle! And another thing, sooner or later Mowgli will meet Shere Khan.
- Baloo: The tiger? What's he got against the kid?
- Bagheera: He hates man with a vengenance. You know that! Because he fears man's gun and man's fire.
- Baloo: But little Mowgli don't have those things.
- Bagheera: Shere Khan won't wait until he does. He'll get Mowgli while he's young and helpless. Just one swipe!
- Baloo: Oh! Well, what... what are we going to do?
- Bagheera: Do what's best for the boy.
- Baloo: [determinned] You better believe it! You name it, I'll do it.
- Bagheera: [pleased] Good. Then make Mowgli go to the man-village.
- Baloo: Are you out of your mind? I promised him that he could stay here in the jungle with me.
- Bagheera: Well, that's just the point! As long as he remains with you, he's in danger! So, it's up to you.
- Baloo: Why me?
- Bagheera: B-because he won't listen to me.
- Baloo: But I love that kid.
- [sniffs]
- Baloo: I love him like he was my own cub!
- Bagheera: Then think what's best for Mowgli, and not yourself.
- Baloo: Uh... well, can't... well, can't I wait until morning?
- Bagheera: It's morning now. Go on Baloo.
- [Baloo sighs and approaches Mowgli who is asleep]
- Baloo: Oh boy!
- [first lines]
- Bagheera: Many strange legends are told of these jungles of India, but none so strange as the story of a small boy named Mowgli. It all began when the silence of the jungle was broken by an unfamiliar sound.
- [Sound of baby crying]
- Bagheera: It was a sound like one never heard before in this part of the jungle. It was a man cub! Had I known how deeply I was to be involved, I would've obeyed my first impulse and walked away.
- Mowgli: [sees the girl] Look. What's that?
- Bagheera: Oh, it's the man-village.
- Mowgli: No, no. I mean that.
- Baloo: Forget about those, they ain't nothing but trouble.
- Mowgli: Just a minute. I've never seen one before.
- Baloo: So you've seen one. So let's go.
- Mowgli: I'll be right back. I want a better look.
- Baloo: Mowgli, wait a minute.
- Bagheera: Oh, Baloo. Let him have a better look.
- Kaa: [hypnotizing Mowgli and coiling him up with his tail] Please, go to sleep. Sleep, little man-cub, rest in peace... sleep... sleep...
- Mowgli: Ba... Bagheera?
- [chokes]
- Bagheera: [half-asleep] Now, it's no use arguing anymore. No more talk until morning.
- Kaa: [laughs] He won't be here in the morning.
- Bagheera: [almost fell asleep] Huh? Oh yes, he will, I...
- Bagheera: [notices Kaa about to voraciously devour Mowgli] KAA! HOLD IT, KAA!
- [Bagheera smacks Kaa in the face]
- [after running to save Mowgli when he hears Baloo's roar]
- Bagheera: Oh no! It's Baloo, that shiftless, stupid jungle bum.
- Bagheera: Mowgli, this time we're not going back. I'm taking you to a man-village.
- Mowgli: [shocked] But why?
- Bagheera: Because Shere Khan has returned to this part of the jungle. And he has sworn to kill you.
- Mowgli: Kill me? But why would he wanna do that?
- Bagheera: He hates man. And Shere Khan is not going to allow you to grow up to become a man. Just another hunter with a gun.
- Mowgli: Aw, we'll just explain to him that I'd never do a thing like that.
- Bagheera: Nonsense. No one explains anything to Shere Khan.
- Mowgli: Well, maybe so. But I'm not afraid. And besides, I...
- Bagheera: [interrupts Mowgli] Now that's enough.
- Colonel Hathi: [Seeing Mowgli for the first time] Well, a new recruit, eh? Ha ha... uh say, what happened to your trunk?
- [Begins prodding Mowgli's nose with his twig]
- Mowgli: [Much annoyed] Hey, stop that!
- Colonel Hathi: [Surprised beyond belief] A mancub! This is treason!
- [Picks Mowgli up with his trunk]
- Colonel Hathi: Sabotage! I'll have no mancub in my jungle!
- [Puts him down]
- Mowgli: It's not your jungle!
- Bagheera: [Running onto the scene] Hold it! Hold it! I can explain, Hathi.
- Colonel Hathi: Colonel Hathi, if you please sir.
- Bagheera: Oh yes. Colonel Hathi. The mancub is with me. I'm taking him to the man village.
- Colonel Hathi: To stay?
- Bagheera: You have the word of Bagheera.
- Colonel Hathi: Good. And remember: an elephant never forgets!
- [Mowgli frowns and folds his arms in disgust]
- [the monkeys have taken Mowgli away and have tricked Baloo into falling off a cliff]
- Baloo: [hollering] Bagheera! BAGHEERA!
- [far away, Bagheera hears Baloo's echoing holler and Bagheera starts back]
- Bagheera: Well, it's happened. It took a little longer than I thought, but it's happened.
- [Baloo struggles up the cliff while Bagheera returns to the cliff where Baloo fell, just as Baloo climbs back up]
- Baloo: [hollering right in Bagheera's ear] BAGHEERA!
- [his echoing holler startles and stuns Bagheera, who glares at him]
- Baloo: Oh, you heard me, huh?
- Bagheera: Mowgli? Mowgli!
- [he turns to Baloo]
- Bagheera: All right, what's happened? Where's Mowgli?
- Baloo: They ambushed me, thousands of 'em!
- [he strikes several fighting poses as he says:]
- Baloo: I jabbed with my left, then I swung with a right, and then I...
- Bagheera: [exasperated] Oh, for the last time, what happened to Mowgli?
- Baloo: Like I told ya, them mangy monkeys carried him off!
- Bagheera: The ancient ruins? Oh, I hate to think what will happen when he meets that king of theirs.
- Akela: [to his fellow wolves about Mowgli] Shere Khan will surely kill the boy and all who try to protect him. Now, are we all in agreement as to what must be done?
- [the wolves nod]
- Akela: Now it is my unpleasant duty to tell the boy's father. Rama? Come over here, please.
- Father Wolf: Yes, Akela?
- Akela: The Council has reached its decision. Man-cub can no longer stay with the pack. He must leave at once.
- Father Wolf: Leave?
- Akela: I am sorry, Rama; there is no other way.
- Father Wolf: But... but the man-cub is... is like my own son. Surely he's entitled to the protection of the pack.
- Akela: But, Rama, even the strength of the pack is no match for the tiger.
- Father Wolf: But the boy cannot survive alone in the jungle.
- Bagheera: Akela, perhaps I can be of help.
- Akela: You, Bagheera? How?
- Bagheera: I know of a man-village where he'll be safe. Mowgli and I have taken many walks into the jungle together. I'm sure he'll go with me.
- Akela: So be it. Now there's no time to lose. Good luck.
- [Baloo has told Mowgli that he has to take him back to the man-village and Mowgli runs off. Baloo calls for him, but only Bagheera answers]
- Bagheera: And now what's happened?
- Baloo: You're not gonna believe me, Bagheera, but look. Now I used the same words you did and he ran out on me!
- Bagheera: Well, don't just stand there! Let's separate! We've got to find him.
- [he runs off]
- Baloo: [going off in a different direction] Oh, boy, if anything happens to that little guy, I'll never forgive myself. I've *gotta* find him!