Sergeant Harley



Sergeant Harley is a villain from the 1994 Disney live action movie Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

He's played by Ron Donachine.

Role in movie
Sergeant Harley is first seen when Mowgli gets arrested for the "attempted murder" of his childhood friend Katherine "Kitty" Brydon. He learns that Mowgli has a bejewelled dragger and he tries to interrogate Mowgli into telling him, Captain William Boone, and Lt. John Wilkins where he got it. But he gets kicked in the crotch and loses his temper, beating Mowgli savagely with a truncheon only to be reprimanded by Colonel Brydon as he enters. Brydon tells the three officers to the prisoner some chairty and as he leaves, Boone coldly tells Harley to further torture the infromation out of Mowgli. He does so but to no avail even when he tries speaking Hindi. Then Kitty enters the dungeon and tells them about her plan to reintroduce Mowgli to civilzation. Boone, Wilkins and Harley insist that Mowgli is vicious and uncivilized and when accused of the bruises inflicted on Mowgli they lie by saying that Mowgli did it to himself despite their attempts to stop him. But Kitty ignores their excuses. Sergeant Harley is next seen during the capture where he, Boone, Wilkins, Buldeo, Tabaqui, and several bandits try to capture Mowgli to make him to lead them to the treasure they're after but it fails when Mowgli fights back, kicks Harley in the crotch again and escapes them. Sergeant Harley is then seen during the revolt in which he, Boone and Wilkins betray Kitty and her father and with the help of Buldeo, Tabaqui and the bandits kidnap them. When asked by Colonel Brydon if he was in cahoots with the scoundels Harley affirms by saying that he was unhappy with not getting paid during his 25 years in the army. When Mowgli shows up Boone tells him to approach them or else "unpleasantries may occur". To further prove Boone's point Buldeo tells Tabaqui to hold a knife to Kitty's throat and Harley tells Mowgli to "take us to the treasure and she'll live". Mowgli agrees.

After Mowgli is captured by his enemies they are being watched Bagheera and the wolves as they camp in the middle of the black jungle during the night Harley is annoyed by Wilkins complaining about the eerie sound of wolves howling and repeatedly tells Mowgli to "shut them up". Mowgli does with a single howl. But the silence is interrupted by the growl of Shere Khan. Harley and Wilkins both hailing from Britain and having heard such sounds before are frightened. The next mourning Harley wakes up to see Mowgli escaping with Bagheera's help he jumps up and gives chase telling the others to wake up. As he runs recklessly through the shrubbery, he falls into a pond of quicksand. Realising the danger he's in Harley panics and screams for help. Wilkins comes to his aid. The quicksand begins sucking Harley under and he begs Harley to help him. Wilkins manages to grab Harley's hand but claims that Harley is pulling him in. Harley becomes hysterical and tells Wilkins not to let go but Wilkins does. With his last breath he says "Damn you" to Wilkins before sinking out of sight to his doom.