British director Guy Ritchie is due to release Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur, which studio Warner Bros hopes will kick off a series of six new movies, in July 2016. The Sword in the Stone also continues the big screen renaissance of Arthur himself. Others, however, see the film as a whimsical, and bizarrely Americanised take on TH White’s 1938 novel, from which it was loosely adapted: by way of example, the movie features a version of the sword Excalibur which Arthur draws from the stone in London, rather than the more traditional Camelot. While not generally considered an out-and-out classic of the studio’s pioneering animated milieu, it holds a place in the hearts of some enthusiasts as a useful introduction to Arthurian myth for children. The Sword in the Stone is known as the final feature to be released prior to Walt Disney’s 1966 death.
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