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A poor boy named Arthur learns the power of love, kindness, knowledge and bravery with the help of a wizard called Merlin in the path to become one of the most beloved kings in English histo... Read allA poor boy named Arthur learns the power of love, kindness, knowledge and bravery with the help of a wizard called Merlin in the path to become one of the most beloved kings in English history.A poor boy named Arthur learns the power of love, kindness, knowledge and bravery with the help of a wizard called Merlin in the path to become one of the most beloved kings in English history.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
Rickie Sorensen
- Wart
- (voice)
Sebastian Cabot
- Sir Ector
- (voice)
- …
Karl Swenson
- Merlin
- (voice)
Junius Matthews
- Archimedes
- (voice)
Martha Wentworth
- Madam Mim
- (voice)
- …
Norman Alden
- Sir Kay
- (voice)
Alan Napier
- Sir Pellinore
- (voice)
Richard Reitherman
- Wart
- (voice)
Robert Reitherman
- Wart
- (voice)
Jack Albertson
- Knight in Crowd #1
- (uncredited)
Barbara Jo Allen
- Scullery Maid
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Fred Darian
- The Minstrel in opening sequence
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
James MacDonald
- The Wolf
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- …
Tudor Owen
- Knight in Crowd
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Thurl Ravenscroft
- Black Bart
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Wolfgang Reitherman
- Clyde Geronimi(earlier film clips) (uncredited)
- David Hand(earlier film clips) (uncredited)
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaArthur was voiced by three different boys - Rickie Sorensen, Richard Reitherman and Robert Reitherman. The changes in voice are very noticeable in the film because of the way Arthur's voice keeps going from broken to unbroken, sometimes in the same scene. One of the easiest noticed is in the last scene in the throne room when Arthur asks in his "changed voice", "Oh, Archimedes, I wish Merlin was here!" Then, the camera cuts farther back and Arthur shouts in his "unchanged voice," "Merlin! Merlin!"
- GoofsThroughout the entire film Wart's voice keeps on changing from being child-like to adult-like. One of the easiest spots to notice this is in the throne room towards the end when Wart is trying to get somebody else to take his place. He says "Oh Archimedes, I wish Merlin were here!" in his adult voice, then the camera goes to a distant view and he calls "Merlin, Merlin" in his child voice.
- Alternate versionsThe UK DVD version omits part of Madam Mim's first line "Sounds like someone's sick. How lovely. I do hope it's serious. Something dreadful." She now says "Sounds like someone's sick. How lovely."
- ConnectionsEdited into The Jungle Book (1967)
- SoundtracksThe Legend of the Sword in the Stone
(1963) (uncredited)
Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Sung by Fred Darian
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Not quite the book, but nice indeed..
This very nice Disney Classic was based on the children's novel by TH White. This was not yet that very well-known, heavy novel titled "the Once and Future King" that so many later movies were based upon, but the lighthearted earlier version. Many agreed that the later novel has disfigured the first, so that we may be thankful for the Disney version!
Though it does not quite follow the book (this is hardly possible, at times) it is a very good version as animated movies go. Not tedious, though of an age where children were meant to learn something from a movie...
A collectors item!
Though it does not quite follow the book (this is hardly possible, at times) it is a very good version as animated movies go. Not tedious, though of an age where children were meant to learn something from a movie...
A collectors item!
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Die Hexe und der Zauberer
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $3,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $12,000,000
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,230,614
- Mar 27, 1983
- Gross worldwide
- $12,000,000
- Runtime1 hour 19 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1(original & negative ratio, open matte)
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By what name was The Sword in the Stone (1963) officially released in India in English?
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