A Plot Summary of Disney’s 1963 film Sword in the Stone


Merlin: I need to find the boy who will one day be King Arthur, and educate him so he is an effective King.

Arthur: I conveniently fell in through your roof.

Merlin: I am going to teach you kingly stuff like geometry and Latin.

Arthur: Okay. I’m currently a squire, and I want to be a Knight.

[Merlin convinces Arthur’s adopted father to let him move in]

Merlin: I’ve lived in the future, where we know the earth is round.

Arthur: That’s great!?

Merlin: Here let me teach you about life by turning you into a fish.

Arthur: …