1h 19min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 25 December 1963 | Color, WS
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Stars: Rickie Sorensen, Sebastian Cabot, Karl Swenson.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057546/
Watched online, good print.
6 songs in the Soundtracks.
Very little time spent on the title concept. The film is mostly a sequence of magic done by Merlin. I guess he's supposed to be teaching young Arthur something by changing Arthur & Merlin into fishes, squirrels and birds, but I don't get it. Then Merlin has a wizard duel with some female sorcerer.
Arthur finally pulls the sword out 5 min before the end of the film, then has to do it again before witnesses. Arthur tries to run away from the job of being king, and Merlin returns from a trip to Bermuda in the 20th century. The End. Boring.
Disney, dir. Reitherman; 5
