Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1975)

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This is the story of the great w*r

that Rikki-Tikki-Tavi fought single handed

through the bathrooms of the big bungalow

in Segowlee cantonment in India.

Darzi, the tailor-bird, helped him,

and Chuchundra, the muskrat,

who never comes out into
the middle of the floor,

but always creeps round by
the wall, gave him advice,

but Rikki did the real fighting.

Here's a dead mongoose,
let's have a funeral.

No, no lets take him in and dry him.

Perhaps he really isn't dead.

I think... I, I think he's breathing.

- Do you suppose he...?
- I don't believe he's dead.

He's H-He's just half c*ck with water.

There.. that should warm him up.

Poor little chap.

Ah...

Ah...

Choo.

Now d-don't frighten him

and we'll see what he'll do.

[Chattering]

[Chattering]

[Giggles]

D-Don't be frighten Teddy.

That's just his way of making friends.

Ouch, he's tickling under my chin.

[Giggles]

What's he doing?

Ha, ha ha

I suppose he so tame because
we've been kind to him.

And this is a wild thing.

All mongooses are like that.

If Teddy doesn't pick him up by the tail

or try to put him in a cage.

He'll run in and out of the house all day.

Let's give him something
to eat so he'll stay.

Rikki, certainty seems to agree with you.

Rikki Tikki ...thats what we'll name him.

It was a temptation to eat the whole banana.

But Rikki remembered what
his mother had taught him.

'A full meal makes a slow mongoose.'

and if he wanted all his
strength and quickness ready.

He must keep himself thin.

Is he going to run away?

No, no, no he's just exploring.

And getting acquainted.

It is the hardest thing in the world
to frighting or surprise a mongoose

because he is eaten-up from
nose to tail with curiosity.

The motto of the mongoose family is,

Run And Find Out.

And Rikki was a true mongoose.

There are more things to find
out about this house and yard,

He said to himself

than all my family could
find out in all there lives.

[Singing] ♫ When I was
a lad I served a term ♫

♫ as office boy to an attorney's firm ♫

♫ I cleaned the windows
and I swept the floor ♫

♫ and I polished the handel
of the big fount door. ♫

Why Rikki do you need a bath too?

Watch out, or you'll get one
whether you need it or not.

Watch your step Rikki...
Rikki it's very slippery.

Woops!

Oh Rikki, wont you ever learn.

Oh Rikki, you look like
goose down not a mongoose.

Au, I don't like that,
he may bite the child.

He'll do no such thing.

Teddy is safer with that little beast
than if he had a bloodhound to watch him.

- If a snake came into the nursery now...
- Oh please don't.

I don't want to think of anything so awful.

Early next morning Rikki Tikki
came down to early breakfast

riding on Teddy's shoulder

and they gave him a little more
banana and some boil egg

and Rikki sat on all there
shoulders one after the other.

Because every well brought mongoose
hopes to be a house mongoose someday.

Boo!

He, he, he, he.

Rikki went out into the garden
to see what was to be seen.

It was a large garden, only
half cultivated, with bushes,

big as summer houses,
of Marshal Niel roses,

lime and orange trees, clumps of bamboos,

and thickets of high grass.

This is a splendid hunting ground.

Rikki Said to himself.

and his tail grew bottle-brushy
at the thought of it.

[Bird chirps sorrowfully]

It was Darzee, the Tailor
bird, and his wife,

on a beautiful nest they made by stitching
two big leaves together with fibers

and filling the hallo with
cotton and downey stuff.

What's the matter?

We are very miserable...

"One of our babies fell out of the
nest yesterday... and Nag ate him."

H'm! That is very sad, but I am
a stranger here. Who is Nag?

[Parseltongue]
Who is Nag? I am Nag.

It was a horrid cold sound.

And inch by inch out of the grass

rose the head and spread hood of Nag

the big black cobra.

[Parseltongue] I am Nag.

The great god Brahm put his
mark upon all our people,

when the first cobra spread his
hood to keep the sun off Brahm.

Look, and be afraid!

Rikki was afraid for a minute

but then he remembered all mongoose business
in life is to fight and k*ll snakes.

Nag knew that too.

From the bottom of his
cold heart he was afraid.

[Chattering]

Behind you!.Nag's wife, look behind you!

Wicked, wicked bird.

Hissed Nagaina for she knew that a live
mongoose in the garden meant death

sooner or later for her family.

[Chattered] Rikki chattered with rage
But Nag and Nagaina had disappeared

and he realized he could not
handel two snakes at once

particularly in the tall grass.

Rikki took a stroll to think.

It was a serous matter to him

because there is no herb
that a mongoose can eat

that will protect him from a cobras bite.

Victory over the cobra is only a matter of
quickness of eye and quickness of foot

snake's blow against mongoose's jump

and as no eye can follow the motion
of a snake's head when it strikes,

this makes things much more
wonderful than any magic herb.

Rikki had managed to escape a blow from behind.
It gave him confidence.

Rikki, where have you been?

I'll bet you've playing. Here.

[Parseltongue]
Be careful. I am Death!

It was Karait, the dusty brown snake-ling

who's bite is as dangerous as a cobra's.

[Chattering], [Hissing]

If Rikki-tikki had only known,

he was doing a much more dangerous
thing than fighting Nag,

for Karait is so small,
and can turn so quickly,

that unless Rikki bit
him close to the head,

he would get the return
stroke in his eye or his lip.

Father, look here!
Our mongoose is k*lling a snake.

He saved your life Timmy.

Teddy's mother said he was a providence.

Oh Rikki, your so hansom

and so brave.

Rikki was hardly amused at all the fuss.

Teddy's mother might just as well have
petted Rikki for playing in the dust.

Rikki was thoroughly enjoying himself.

As soon as Teddy was asleep.

Rikki went off for his nightly
walk around the house.

In the dark he discovered Chuchundra,

the muskrat, creeping around by the wall.

[Weeping sniffling] Don't don't k*ll
me, great mongoose Don't k*ll me.

Do you think a snake-k*ller kills muskrats?

Those who k*ll snakes get k*lled by snakes,

And how am I to be sure that Nag won't
mistake me for you some dark night?

There's not the least danger,
Nag is out in the garden,

and I know you don't go there.

[Sniveling] Yes,

Yes, but my cousin Chua,
the rat, told me...

Told you what Chuchundra?

[Sniveling]

Nag is everywhere, Oh dear, oh dear!

You should have talked to Chua.

"I didn't–so you must tell me quick.
Quick, Chuchundra, or I'll bite you!"

Uh, I'm a very poor and humble man

I never had spirit enough to run
out into the middle of the room.

I mustn't tell you anything.

Can't you hear Rikki-Tikki?

The house was as still as still,

but he thought he could just catch the
faintest scratch-scratch in the world,

a noise as faint as that of a
wasp walking on a window-pane.

"That's Nag or Nagaina."

Rikki said to himself,

and he is crawling into
the bath-room sluice.

You're right, Chuchundra, I
should have talked to Chua.

[Nag Parseltongue]
I will go

and I will k*ll the big man and his wife

and the child if I can

then the bungalow will be empty
and Rikki-Tikki will go.

[Nagaina Parseltongue]
When the house is empty of people

the mongoose will go away.

[Nag] So is everything to be
gained by k*lling the people?

[Nagaina] When the bungalow is empty.

We again, will be king
and queen of the garden.

As soon as our eggs in the melon bed hatch,

our children will need room.

[Nag] This is good.

Nag said to himself.

The big man has a fire stick

but when he comes to bath in the
morning he will not have that stick,

I'll shall wait here until he comes.

[Clocks Tolls AM]

If I don't break his
back at the first jump,

thought Rikki

he can still fight. And if he fights.

Oh Rikki!

It must be the head, the
head above the hood.

And once I am there, I must never let go.

[Chattering]

[g*n Shot]

Ah-choo.

It's the mongoose again, Alice.

"The little chap has...
has saved our lives now."

What was, what was all that,
noise about downstairs?

Never mind, I'll tell you
in the morning dear.

Oh Rikki, you are brave and beautiful.

In the morning Rikki was very stiff,
but well pleased with himself.

But he didn't wait foe breakfast

because he knew now he had
Nagaina to settle with.

And she will be worse than five Nags,

Said Rikki to himself.

and there's no knowing
when the eggs will hatch.

Darzee was singing a song of
triumph at the top of his voice.

♫ Cau, cau-cau cau coo coo churp hoo hoo ♫

[Singing] ♫ Who has delivered us? Who? ♫

♫ Tell me his nest and his name. ♫

♫ Rikki the valiant the true. ♫

♫ Tikki with eyeballs aflame. ♫

♫ Rikk-tikki-tikki, ♫

♫ the ivory-fanged. ♫
- Oh you stupid tuft of feathers

♫ the hunter with eyeballs of flame! ♫
- Is this the time to sing?

Wheres Nagaina?

♫ Sing to your fledglings again, ♫

♫ Mother, oh lift up your head! ♫

♫ Evil that plagued us is slain, ♫

♫ Death in the garden lies dead. ♫

♫ Terror that hid in the roses garden,
he lies on the rubbish he's dead! ♫

Stop! Stop it Darzee!

Where is Nagaina?

For the great the beautiful
Rikki's sake, I will stop.

What is it, oh k*ller of the terrible Nag.

Where is Nagaina? For the third time!

On the rubbish heap by the
stables, mourning for Nag.

Great is Rikki-Tikki with the white teeth.

Bother my white teeth.
Where does she keep her eggs?

♫ Give him the Thanks of the Birds, ♫

♫ Bowing with tail feathers spread! ♫

♫ Praise him with nightingale words. ♫

♫ Nay, I will praise him instead. ♫

♫ Hear! I will sing you the
praise of the bottle-tailed. ♫

♫ Rikki, with eyeballs of red! ♫

Darzee's wife was a sensible bird

she knew that cobra eggs in the
garden meant young cobras later on.

In the melon bed, on the
end nearest the wall.

Quickly, fly off and pretend
that your wing is broken,

and let Nagaina chase you back here.

I must get to the melon-bed,

[Gasps]

Oh, my wing is broke!

The boy in the house threw
a stone and broke it.

[Parseltongue] You warned Rikki-tikki
when I would have k*lled him.

"Indeed and truly, you've chosen
a bad place to be lame in."

The boy broke it with a stone!

Oh dear, oh dear.

What is the use of running away?

I'm sure to catch you.

Little fool look at me!

Darzee's wife knew better than to do that,

for a bird who looks at a snake's eyes

may gets so frightened
that she cannot move.

Rikki found the cobra's nest and
crushed all but one of the deadly eggs.

Then.

Rikki-tikki, Nagaina has
gone to the house and.

[Gasps] oh, come quickly–she means k*lling!

[Hissing]

Sit still, Teddy. You mustn't move.
Teddy, keep very still.

Son of the man that k*lled Nag...

If you move I strike,

and if you do not move I strike.

Oh, foolish people.

Turn round, Nagaina. Turn and fight!

All in good time,

I will settle my account
with you presently.

If you come a step nearer,
I will strike the boy!

What price for a cobra's egg?

Or a young cobra?

Ah, give it to me Rikki-Tikki.

Trick, trick, trick, [Chattering]

Trick, trick, trick.

And nag was dead before
the big man blew him up.

I k*lled Nag!

Come and fight with me Nagaina!

[Chattering]

[Chattering]

Very few mongooses, however
old and wise they may be,

care to follow a cobra into its hole.

You never knew when it might open out
and give the cobra room to strike.

It's all over with Rikki-Tikki.
We must sing his death song.

♫ Sing him a sad song of birds ♫

♫ bowing with tail feathers spread ♫

♫ sing to your fledgling again. ♫

♫ Mother Oh bow down your head. ♫

♫ Nagaineea will hunt in
the garden once more. ♫

♫ For Rikki the valiant is dead. ♫

Ah-choo.

It's all over, Nagaina
will never come out again.

♫ Who has delivered us who? ♫

♫ Tell me his nest and his name. ♫

♫ Rikki the valiant the true. ♫

♫ Tikki with eyeballs aflame. ♫

♫ Rik-Tikki Tikki The ivory fang. ♫

♫ The hunter with eyeballs aflame. ♫

He saved our likes, and Timmy's life.

He saved all our lives.

[Chattering]

Rikki-tikki had a right
to be proud of himself.

But he did not grow too proud,

and he kept that garden as
a mongoose should keep it,

with tooth and jump and spring and bite,

till never a cobra dared show
its head inside the walls.

Subtitles By: MightyMike
Houston, Texas