The Sword in the Stone // 1963 American animated musical comedy film trailer
The Sword in the Stone // 1963 American animated musical comedy film trailer

The Sword in the Stone is a 1963 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney and released by Buena Vista Distribution.

The 18th Disney animated feature film, it is based on the novel of the same name by T.

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White, first published in 1938 then revised and republished in 1958 as the first book of White's Arthurian tetralogy The Once and Future King.

Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman and uncredited Hamilton Luske, 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.