Mowgli's Brothers (1976 TV Movie)

June Foray: Mother Wolf

Quotes 

• Father Wolf : Shere Khan does us great honor. What does Shere Khan need?

  Shere Khan : My quarry - the Man's Cub. It's parents escaped me - give him to me!

  Tabaqui the Jackal : It is his. Give it to him.

  Father Wolf : The wolves are a free people. They take orders from the head of the pack, and not from any striped cattle killer. The Man's Cub is ours, to kill if we choose.

  Shere Khan : You choose and you do not choose!

  Tabaqui the Jackal : What is this talk of choosing, O master?

  Shere Khan : Am I to stand nosing into your dog's den for my fair dues?

  Tabaqui the Jackal : Fair dues!

  Shere Khan : It is I, Shere Khan who speaks!

  Mother Wolf : And it is I, Raksha the demon who answer. The Man's Cub is mine - mine to me! He shall not be killed. He shall live to run with the pack, and to hunt with the pack! And in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs, frog eater, he shall hunt you. Now get hence, back to your starved cattle, branded beast of the jungle! Go!

• Father Wolf : [hearing Shere Khan roar]  That fool! To begin a night's work with that noise. Does Shere Kahn think that...

  Mother Wolf : Shh! It is neither buck nor bullock that he hunts tonight - it is man.

  Father Wolf : Man? Not man on our hunting ground!

  Narrator : The law of the Jungle, which never orders anything without reason, forbids every beast to eat man. The reason for this is that man-killing means sooner or later that men will come with guns and set the grass alight, and hundreds of men will scour the jungle for the killer with gongs and rockets and torches. Then, everybody in the jungle suffers.

• Mother Wolf : [seeing Mowgli for the first time]  How little. How naked - and how bold! So this is a man's cub.

  Father Wolf : He is altogether without a hair, and I could kill him with a touch of my paw.

  Mother Wolf : But see? He looks up, and is not afraid.