This documentary chronicles the life of a female spotted jaguar in the South American jungle.This documentary chronicles the life of a female spotted jaguar in the South American jungle.This documentary chronicles the life of a female spotted jaguar in the South American jungle.
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Winston Hibler
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- TriviaFourteenth and last installment of the True-Life Adventures series of nature documentaries produced by Walt Disney.
- GoofsThere are actually two snakes in the jaguar battle scene. The female fights with a Boa constrictor and the male with an anaconda, of the genus Eunectes.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Magical World of Disney: Man Is His Own Worst Enemy (1962)
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Okay, but definitely not the best of the series
Mainly because of diminishing returns, "Jungle Cat" was the last of Disney's "True-Life" feature length nature documentaries. Though I think another reason for that was that the makers of these movies had pretty much run out of techniques and tricks to really captivate the audience. Don't get me wrong, the documentary does educate, and some of the footage is fairly impressive. But even though the documentary is only seventy minutes in length, it often feels slow and sluggish. The movie seems to be repeating itself over and over. One reason for this may be that there is a significant lack of focus. Though the title of the documentary proclaims it is about the South American jungle cat, the movie keeps jumping back and forth from that subject to focus on other animals in the Brazilian rain forest. It might have worked slightly better had the movie given every focused animal a brief look, then jumped to another animal and not looked back. I realize I seem to be portraying this movie as being really bad. It really isn't; it could have been a lot worse. But all the same it eventually overstays its welcome.
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- A True-Life Adventure: Jungle Cat
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- Runtime1 hour 9 minutes
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- 1.75 : 1
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