Short film

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

1975 · 24 min

A cozy, storybook-animated adventure with a plucky little hero, gentle charm and a few genuinely suspenseful snake standoffs.

Overview: Rikki is a young mongoose who is adopted by a human family after nearly drowning in the river. He returns the favour by protecting them from two murderous cobra.
How it feels: Warm, tense, earnest and whimsical. Brisk and easy to follow.
About: Survival, family, loyalty, nature
Content: Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
family
loyalty
nature
coming-of-age
Places: single country house
countryside
Era: period
Audience: family
Form: animated
single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none

All scales, 0 to 10

Orson WellesNarrator / Nag / Chuchundra (voice)
Les TremayneFather (voice)
June ForayNagaina the Cobra, Wife of Nag / Teddy's Mother / Darzee's Wife (voice)
Michael LeClairTeddy (voice)
Shepard MenkenRikki-Tikki-Tavi the Mongoose (voice)
Lennie WeinribDarzee the Tailorbird (voice)