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The Jungle Book

1967 · directed by Wolfgang Reitherman · 78 min
26,964 feet · Prominence
100th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredThe 100th highest film on the mountain, and The Rewatchables has never done it.

How this film scores

Draw87

Lifetime worldwide gross $378m, re-releases included; about $1.88bn in 2026 money.

Rank25 of 11,051In 19671 of 38

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise77

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics77 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy82

Judged directly: Bare Necessities, permanent Disney songbook staple.

Verdict82 of 100IMDb7.6 from 211kWikipedia36k views a monthAge59 years

Scored beside it · 97 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 87 praise 77 legacy 82averages 82, placing it at26,964 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ George Sanders▲ Sebastian Cabot▲ Bruce Reitherman

In these careers — elevation for this film

Phil Harris20,113 ftGeorge Sanders18,658 ftSebastian Cabot18,308 ftSterling Holloway18,283 ftBruce Reitherman18,227 ft