Jungle Cat (film)
{{Infobox film
| name = Jungle Cat
| image = Jungle Cat poster.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Official theatrical poster
| director = James Algar
| producer = Ben Sharpsteen
Walt Disney
| writer = James Algar
| narrator = Winston Hibler
| starring =
| music = Oliver Wallace
| cinematography = Lloyd Beebe
James R. Simon
Hugh A. Wilmar
| editing = Norman R. Palmer
| studio = Walt Disney Productions
| distributor = Buena Vista Distribution
| released = {{Film date|1960|06||Berlin|1960|08|10|US}}
| runtime = 69 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross = $2.3 million (US and Canadian rentals){{cite news|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/variety221-1961-01#page/n46/mode/1up|title=Rental Potentials of 1960|magazine=Variety|date=January 4, 1961|page=47|accessdate=April 27, 2019}}
}}
Jungle Cat is a 1960 American documentary film written and directed by James Algar. The documentary chronicles the life of a female jaguar in the South American jungle. The film was released on August 10, 1960,{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/496210/jungle-cat|title=Jungle Cat (1960) - Overview - TCM.com|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=1 November 2014}} and was the last of Walt Disney Productions' True-Life Adventures series of documentary feature films.
Synopsis
Release
The film was shown during the 10th Berlin International Film Festival in June 1960 and was one of a few to also be screened in East Berlin.{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|title=Berlin Film Fest Unreeling|last=Myers|first=Harold|page=5|date=29 June 1960|url=https://archive.org/stream/variety219-1960-06#page/n284/mode/1up|access-date=13 February 2021|via=Archive.org}}
Reception
Howard Thompson of The New York Times wrote: "As written and directed by James Algar, this is one of Mr. Disney's best—intimate, tasteful, strong and matter-of-fact".Thompson, Howard (August 18, 1960). [https://www.nytimes.com/1960/08/18/archives/disney-double-bill.html "Disney Double Bill".] The New York Times. 19. Variety stated: "Somewhat less astonishing, considerably less amusing, but equally as meticulous and painstakingly filmed as Walt Disney's previous true-life adventure pieces, 'Jungle Cat' pokes around in the lush rain forests of Brazil and comes up with some splendidly photographed shots of wildlife in its best survival-of-the-fittest form".{{cite magazine|title=Film Reviews: Jungle Cat|magazine=Variety|date=August 10, 1960|page=6}} Frank Mulcahy of the Los Angeles Times called the film "a fascinating study of 'the greatest hunter of all cats', the jaguar ... Like all films in this particular Disney series, it is beautifully photographed in Technicolor and shows every evidence of the painstaking work required to produce such remarkable footage".Mulcahy, Frank (August 13, 1960). "'Jungle Cat' Proves Fascinating Study". Los Angeles Times. Part I, p. 12. The Monthly Film Bulletin said: "The detail of the film's reportage, and its photographic magnificence, are the more remarkable considering the conditions under which it must have been made ... The whimsy makes the film doubly suitable for children. But one still deplores the over-joviality of a commentary which noisily relishes the prospect of animals killing and eating one another—as when a jaguar, disappointed in some victim, casts around for another just as a wild pig trots into sight. 'Never mind', says the commentator, 'here comes a nice pork chop on the hoof!'"{{cite journal |date=November 1960 |title=Jungle Cat |journal=The Monthly Film Bulletin |volume=27 |issue=322 |page=159}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0053977|Jungle Cat}}
- {{tcmdb title|496210|Jungle Cat}}
{{True Life Adventures}}
Category:Walt Disney Pictures films
Category:American documentary films
Category:1960 documentary films
Category:Films directed by James Algar
Category:Films produced by Ben Sharpsteen
Category:Films scored by Oliver Wallace
Category:Documentary films about cats
Category:1960s English-language films
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