TMR 025 – The Sword in the Stone

Total Movie Recall

The Sword in the Stone (1963)

d. Wolfgang Reitherman

Produced by: Walt Disney

Starring:Rickie SorensenSebastian CabotKarl Swenson

This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan relive the vile union of a pedophilic wizard and his would be king pupil. Ryan remembers a simpler time when he'd eat sugary snacks at his creepy neighbor's house while getting hockity pocketied, and Steve demands more swords and wizardry in his swords and wizardry in the 1963 Disney classic "The Sword in the Stone."

This Disney adaptation of the classic fable chronicles King Arthur's humble beginnings. As an orphaned child, Arthur, who was then known as Wart, wants to help his foster brother, Kay, succeed in becoming a knight. While helping Kay train, Wart stumbles upon a cabin belonging to Merlin, a bumbling but talented wizard. Merlin does his best to convince the boy that he is bound for greatness, and when Wart and Kay travel to London to attend a jousting contest, they learn that Merlin was right.

Things discussed in the show:

King Arthur, Merlin

Oldboy

The World of Kanako - Alamo Drafthouse Films, Kôji Yakusho, Tetsuya Nakashima

Takashi Miike - Visitor Q, 13 Assassins, The Great Yokai War

The Last Witch Hunter - Vin Diesel, Dungeons & Dragons

Hellboy

Nicolas Cage - Knowing, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Season of the Witch

Alex Proyas - I, Robot, The Crow

The Witch - Robert Eggers

Hanzel & Gretel: Witch Hunters - Jeremy Renner

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Finding Nemo

Fast and Furious 7

The Witches

Haxan - William Burroughs

Jonathan Brandis, Richard Jenkins (Bone Tomahawk, Burn After Reading, Step Brothers), Patton Oswalt, John Goodman, Dash Mihok (The Thin Red Line, White Boys), Val Kilmer

Haley Joel Osment, Margo Martindale, Danny DeVito, Charlie Day

Alanis Morissette and Dave Coulier

Alan Rickman

Game of Thrones - The Mountain (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson)

Fantasia

Willow

All eras of Disney: Dumbo - Bambi - The Jungle Book - Mary Poppins - The Apple Dumpling Gang - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Pinochio - The Three Cabelleros - The Adventures of Ichobad and Mr. Toad - Cindrella - Alice in Wonderland - Sleeping Beauty - Lady and the Tramp - 101 Dalmations - The Aristicats - Robin Hood - The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh - The Rescuers - The Fox and the Hound - The Black Cauldron - The Great Mouse Detective - Oliver and Company - The Little Mermaid - The Rescuers Down Under - Beauty and the Beast - Aladdin - The Lion King - Pocahontas - The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Hercules - Mulan - Tarzan - Fantasia 2000 - The Emperors New Groove - Dinosaur - Atlantis - Lilo and Stitch - Princess and the Frog - Wreck it Ralph - Frozen - Big Hero 6

James Woods

Basil of Baker Street

The Rocketeer

Pixar: Wall-E, Up, Toy Story

Hayao Miyazaki

Next week: Ninja Scroll