The Sword in the Stone (1963)
Here's our last remaining Silver Age film, The Sword in the Stone. The Movie: The Sword in the Stone is the 18th film in the Disney Animated Canon and the 7th of Disney's Silver Age. It was a box-office success despite receiving mixed reviews from critics. It did earn one Oscar nomination for its musical score. The Sword in the Stone is based on the book of the same name by T. H. White, which tells the story of a young future King Arthur before the legends as told by Sir Thomas Malory. (White would later write three other books based on the Arthurian legend and combine them into the work The Once and Future King.) In this tale young Arthur is known as Wart, a ward of Sir Ector and the squire of Ector's son Kay. While the two boys are out hunting, Wart goes into the woods to retrieve and arrow and meets the magician Merlin and his talking owl Archimedes. Merlin, knowing Wart is destined for greatness, travels with him back to Ector's castle to...