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Released
1963 · FILM

The Sword in the Stone

A 12-year-old orphan named Arthur, raised in a castle by a nobleman, is taken under the wing of the enigmatic wizard Merlin, who reveals his destiny as the future king of Britain—should he be the one to pull the legendary sword from the stone.

“Tired of living in a Medieval mess... Merlin uses all his magic powers to change a scrawny little boy into a legendary hero!”

Directed by
Wolfgang Reitherman
Written by
Bill Peet, T H White
Rated
MPA · G
Runtime
79 min
AdventureAnimationComedy
Streaming on
  • Disney+

Synopsis

Wart is a young boy who aspires to be a knight.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Donald HallidayScored by George Bruns

Box Office

1963 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 7.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$22.2M

Budget$3.0M
Worldwide gross$22.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Die Hexe und der Zaubererde
  • Merlin und Mimde
  • Merlin l'enchanteurfr
  • La spada nella rocciait

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