
In reality the soldier was played by one of the tiger's handlers. The jungle camp set was built on Fripp Island and we shot a night scene there where a tiger attacks a soldier and runs amok through the camp. Then the production moved over to Fripp Island and we shot scenes that called for lakes and deep jungle stuff. We shot in Tennessee for all the mountains, cliffs and waterfalls at 'Fall Creek Falls, State Park' and 'Lost Creek Falls and Cave'. "I worked on the 1994 Disney production of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and we did use animals on both the Fripp Island location as well as the Tennessee location. Murray III shares his fascinating account of working on the film:


Lush jungle scenes were shot on Fripp Island, nearly 8,000 miles away from India where the story took place.Plot – A live-action rendering of Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves in the jungles of India.Cast – Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill, John Cleese.If you have a story about the filming of The Jungle Book in South Carolina, let us know. South Carolina Movies Filmed in South Carolina The Jungle Book
