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The Sword in the Stone
Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman
Wart is a young boy who aspires to be a knight's squire. On a hunting trip he falls in on Merlin, a powerful but amnesiac wizard who has plans for him beyond mere squiredom. He starts by trying to give him an education, believing that once one has an education, one can go anywhere. Needless to say, it doesn't quite work out that way. From TMDB
143 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 29, 2026 · last updated Oct 29, 2026 · How this works
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| TMDB reviews * | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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The Sword in the Stone is a 1963 animation family fantasy film, directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, starring Sebastian Cabot, Karl Swenson and Junius Matthews.
- 124 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
- posts span Sep 5, 2018 to Oct 29, 2026
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60 of 143 · most liked firstFor my 13th entry of #Smaugust I drew Mad Madam Mim from The Sword In The Stone, when she transforms into a purple dragon during the wizard duel with Merlin, imo the best part of the film.
positive · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 The Sword in the Stone (1963) By Martin Ansin
neutral · AI labelView post →I think, going purely on visual storytelling, The Sword in the Stone is my favourite Disney movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 The Sword in the Stone (1963) By Martin Ansin
neutral · AI labelView post →And as for hand gestures, Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" has probably some of the most expressive hands I've ever seen. Hands are the second most expressive part of the body and can do a lot of storytelling, even if your character's face is not visible for whatever reason.
neutral · AI labelView post →For tonight's episode of "Tommy rewatched an old animated movie and is enamored with an old man" we have, perhaps completely unsurprisingly, Merlin from The Sword in the Stone
positive · AI labelView post →#Edwards1000SixtiesMovies 311/1000: THE SWORD IN THE STONE This Disney animated film is a family-friendly look at the early life and education of legendary King Arthur, his training under the tutelage of powerful yet forgetful wizard Merlin, and eventually, his successful retrieval of Excalubur.
neutral · AI labelView post →The shapeshifter urge to play with forms we haven't locked in as a recurrent form just to experiment with a new species like we're in the movie "The Sword in the Stone" shapeshifting left and right and seeing how the new body feels
neutral · AI labelView post →20 of your favorite Disney films (animated). One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just gifs. Day 9) The Sword in the Stone
neutral · AI labelView post →This and the duel between Merlin and Madam Mim in Disney’s 1963 movie The Sword in the Stone are my two favorite sorcerer duel scenes 😆 #FrightClub
positive · AI labelView post →In #BeyondShadowgate, the lab in Themeire Mansion is based directly on Merlin's lab equipment in The Sword in the Stone (1963). My favorite film as a kid. #PixelArt #PointAndClickAdventure #IndieGame #Shadowgate
neutral · AI labelView post →this hurt me because The Lion King is my favorite Disney movie (it's HAMLET with LIONS) but The Sword in the Stone has some of my favorite goofy animated moments in like... anything the squirrels!!!!
positive · AI labelView post →#JuneMovieChallenge (2) Movie about a King or Queen The Sword in the Stone (1963)
neutral · AI labelView post →Share an ANIMATED movie title that begins with the letter “S” 🎥 S is for… “The Sword in the Stone”(1963) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →#WrongDisneySong #MusicChallenge Movie: The Sword In The Stone “O Fortuna” by Carlos Off youtu.be/nthojvLZoNY?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching: The Sword in the Stone (1963)
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm up for Baltimore Comic Con Day 2! I have TWO new releases at my table: Gunslinger Spawn #58 and Merlin's Tale, an OGN prequel to the animated movie The Sword in the Stone from Disney!
neutral · AI labelView post →Final orders are due TODAY for the trade paperback of Rogue and the graphic novel prequel to the Sword in the Stone movie from Disney. Let your shop know you want these!!
neutral · AI labelView post →#BOTD 1889 Verna Martha Wentworth: American actress. Originally a radio actress, she became a film actress in the 1940s. She went on to do voice work for Walt Disney Studios in One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) and The Sword in the Stone (1963), her final credited film appearance.
neutral · AI labelView post →#FilmSky #Movies 🎬🎥 #DisSky #Disney 🐭🏰 20 of your favorite Disney films. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just gifs. Day 6: The Sword in the Stone
neutral · AI labelView post →#NewYearsResolutionsChallenge (17) Someone mentoring in a movie The Sword in the Stone (1963)
neutral · AI labelView post →I got my mom to rent it for me but only because she thought she was renting The Sword in the Stone. She couldn't figure out why all my friends were excited to come over and watch a Disney movie 🤣 #FrightClub #TheSwordAndTheSorcerer
neutral · AI labelView post →20 of your favorite Disney films. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just gifs. Day 1: The Sword in the Stone #FilmSky #DisneyFilmChallenge
neutral · AI labelView post →Shout out Stranger Things having a brief scene including The Sword in the Stone which is a top 5 animated film (not a spoiler)
positive · AI labelView post →What is your favorite movie from before 1970? #RandomMovieGIF The Sword in the Stone (1963)
neutral · AI labelView post →#BOTD 1889 Verna Martha Wentworth: American actress. Her vocal variety led to her being called the "Actress of 100 Voices". Remembered for voicing the shape-shifting witch Madam Mim in the Arthurian animated film "The Sword in the Stone" (1963). Fallen Angel (1945) The Stranger (1946)...
neutral · AI labelView post →#FilmSky #Movies 🎬🎥 #DisSky #Disney 🐭🏰 20 of your favorite Disney films. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just gifs. Day 2: The Sword in the Stone
neutral · AI labelView post →Husband and I watched the Disney movie “The Sword In The Stone.” I haven’t seen it in twenty years. It’s a very in movie. It meanders a lot and then just ends when Arthur becomes king and expresses his concerns about not knowing what he’s doing. 😝
neutral · AI labelView post →Archimedes is the name of Merlin's owl sidekick (familiar?) in the Disney adaptation of T.H. White's Arthurian novel The Sword in the Stone (which later became the first section of The Once and Future King; judging by dates, this pizza chain was started pretty soon after the movie came out
neutral · AI labelView post →The Green Knight kind of stands out for being an adaptation of an Arthurian knight-errant side-story. Most arthuriana movies either focus on the Sword in the Stone, or try to adapt his whole life from conception to death.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's been a while since I've enjoyed a Disney movie and actually laughed my The Sword in the Stone was a fun movie. Though Archimedes was the best character in the film.
positive · AI labelView post →The Sword In The Stone is a New Year’s Day movie
neutral · AI labelView post →I never watched the Sword in the Stone animated movie but apparently Merlin turns Arthur into animals to learn about science? That's bullshit. He turned him into animals to learn about political science, like totalitarianism, power dynamics, and the wonders of borderless goose anarcho-socialism
neutral · AI labelView post →10 Favourite Animated Features (in no order) Sleeping Beauty Charlotte's Web The Sword in the Stone Fire and Ice Luca Thumbelina Spirited Away Gumby: The Movie The Adventures of Mark Twain Toy Story
neutral · AI labelView post →The first time I saw The Sword in the Stone, it was dubbed in to Finnish so for me it was essentially a silent movie, and SO much better than when I saw the English version a few days later. (I was preparing the master tapes for VHS duplication)
positive · AI labelView post →#Bales2026MovieChallenge May 7 - makes you smile for no reason The Sword in the Stone (1963) #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →Reading The Sword in the Stone and the author gives such a rich inner life to all the animals, it’s very refreshing to see. The Disney movie was a bunch of antics but the book lets everything breathe.
neutral · AI labelView post →The squirrels were at it in a major way today, chasing one another up and down tree trunks and along branches like that scene from The Sword in the Stone 😸 (another disney film i saw at the cinema when it first came out, because old)
neutral · AI labelView post →How come the Disney movie best suited for a sequel (The Sword in the Stone) never got a sequel?
neutral · AI labelView post →Magic nanny golem constantly layering diapers on you until you say "When." Just like the sugar dish in "The Sword in the Stone" movie from 1963. Unfortunately you forgot what words were until just a few moments ago so this might take a while.
neutral · AI labelView post →THIS FRIDAY ON UNNATURAL SELECTION: @follypersist.bsky.social and I read what we assumed was the most correct version of T.H. White's The Sword in the Stone to compare to the Disney animated adaptation. As it turns out we would be WRONG. Where is our ant fascism? The geese? Who tf is Madam Mim??? 🧙🐿️
neutral · AI labelView post →A Goofy Movie Madagascar 2 Several episodes of Bill Nye the Science Guy The Sword in the Stone 9 Polar Express Charlie and Chocolate Factory Wizard of Oz And several French Canadian programs.
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬🎥 20 of your favorite Disney films. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just gifs. Day 3 - The Sword in the Stone
neutral · AI labelView post →(cont) However, I think the perfect intro to Arthurian myth (as well as Camelot '67, as the source material is both The Once & Future King) is The Sword In The Stone. Though Merlin is (again) played for laughs, it's just a fun overall fantasy movie. 3/?
positive · AI labelView post →I think what this movie presupposes is that Dracula was a character in The Sword in the Stone #SonOfDracula #FlicksForAll
neutral · AI labelView post →20 movies that have greatly influenced you. 1 per day, no explanations, no context, just the poster. #filmsky Day #2 The Sword in the Stone (1963)
neutral · AI labelView post →This challenge is to choose 20 movies that have greatly influenced you. One film per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just posters! Day 2/20: Disney's The Sword in the Stone (1963)
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's Disney movie I've never seen before this evening is The Sword in the Stone.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Sword in the Stone a very weird, borderline improvisational movie that seems to have been made entirely on the basis of "what would be the most fun to draw and animate?" rather than any consideration to a good story. you won't be too bored, but it's an incredibly shallow offering.
negative · AI labelView post →Considering the fact that Arthur has three voice actors in the film (probably due to circumstances), at least in the language dubs of The Sword in the Stone they have kept a consistent voice for Arthur, especially in the Russian dub that I have seen in which his voice kept the same.
neutral · AI labelView post →You just want me to out how old I am. It was a Disney movie, “The Sword in the Stone”. (King Arthur story).
neutral · AI labelView post →The Sword in the Stone is a blast of a film. Pure silliness in a “classic animation” way. It’s basically Rick and Morty. But The Lion King is the The Lion King. Formative for me, personally, and the film (after Mermaid and BatB) that really cemented that Disney wasn’t messing around.
positive · AI labelView post →Name your fav animated film made before 1980. 1963, The Sword in the Stone. I absolutely love this movie.
positive · AI labelView post →What's your favorite animated film made before 1980? Mine is definitely the Sword in the Stone. This is the type of magic I always wanted to be able to do: goofy and useful.
positive · AI labelView post →Help! I'm a Fish, and/or The Sword in the Stone. Really any film where a character's turned into an animal and placed in, like, even like a moderate level of peril, but especially these two. Always used to fuck me up. Low key still kind of do.
neutral · AI labelView post →##AprilFilmChallenge Day 5 - the first film you saw in a theater The Sword in the Stone #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →I just finished watching "The Sword in the Stone" and it's a really charming movie! it does get repetitive with Arthur becoming an animal, and suddenly, a bigger animal is coming to get him. Madam mim is my favorite character in the film, and I love that sugar bowl
positive · AI labelView post →I am reading the Once and Future King by T.H White and I really need to rewatch Disney's The Sword in the Stone because I somehow doubt that the antiwarfare feeling of the book translated into the movie....
neutral · AI labelView post →This week, for #Disney100 Saturdays, we bring you the next two movies; 101 Dalmatians and The Sword in the Stone. Featured are Pongo, Perdita and the Original 15 Puppies and Merlin the Wizard. Now if you'll excuse me, I must rough out next week's Disney film characters.
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh that's a tough one as I don't think i have just one. Movie wise it would be The Great Mouse Detective and The Sword in the Stone. Shows would be the first run of X-men, Spider-Man, Batman Beyond, Static Shock, Thunder Cat and that's just a few.
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