The Sword in the Stone (1963)
The Sword in the Stone (1963)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Sebastian Cabot
The Narrator/Sir Ector (voice)
Karl Swenson
Merlin (voice)
Junius Matthews
Archimedes the Owl (voice)
Martha Wentworth
Madam Mim / Old Lady Squirrel (voice)
Norman Alden
Kay (voice)
Rickie Sorensen
Wart (voice)
Ginny Tyler
Little Girl Squirrel (voice)
Alan Napier
Sir Pellinore (voice)
Richard Reitherman
Wart (voice)
Robert Reitherman
Wart (voice)
Mel Blanc
TIger / Talbot (voice) (uncredited)
Barbara Jo Allen
Scullery Maid (voice) (uncredited)
James MacDonald
The Wolf / Pike / Tiger Mim (voice) (uncredited)
Tudor Owen
Knight in Crowd (voice) (uncredited)
Thurl Ravenscroft
Black Bart (voice) (uncredited)
Walt Disney
Producer
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 25, 1963
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 19m
Content RatingG
Budget$3,000,000
Box Office$22,200,000
Genres
Wiki.
The Sword in the Stone is a 1963 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney and released by Buena Vista Distribution. It is based on the novel of the same name by T. H. White, first published in 1938 and then revised and republished in 1958 as the first book of White's Arthurian tetralogy The Once and Future King. Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, the film features the voices of Rickie Sorensen, Karl Swenson, Junius Matthews, Sebastian Cabot, Norman Alden, and Martha Wentworth. It was the last animated film from Walt Disney Productions to be released in Walt Disney's lifetime.
Disney first acquired the film rights to the novel in 1939, and there were various attempts at developing the film over the next two decades before production on the film officially began. Bill Peet wrote the story for the film, while the songs were written by the Sherman Brothers. This was the first animated Disney film to feature songs by the Sherman Brothers; they went on to contribute music to such Disney animated feature films as Mary Poppins (1964), The Jungle Book (1967), The Aristocats (1970), and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977). George Bruns composed the film's score, following his work on the previous two animated Disney films, Sleeping Beauty (1959) and One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961). He also composed the scores of the next three Disney animated feature films, The Jungle Book, The Aristocats, and Robin Hood (1973).
The film received mixed reviews, but became a box-office success. A live-action remake entered development in 2015 and is set to be directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and released on Disney+.