Girl, 7, finds 4ft SWORD in same lake where King Arthur was said to have hurled Excalibur

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26. Exclaibur, the film, ...

There have been, as far as I can find, about two dozen movies dramatizing the King Arthur story, but I think that 1981's EXCALIBUR, the one featured in two clips above, was the best. It pretended, like a few others, to be based on Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, written in 1469, based on legends very deliberately cultivated during the reign of Henry II (12th cent.), rather than admit any obligation to a copyrighted source.

Anyway, it featured Helen Mirren (as Morgana), Nicol Williamson (as Merlin), Nigel Terry as a heroic Arthur (only a few years earlier he had been a rodent-like Prince John in Lion in Winter). The music is all Wagner (the bit behind the tossing of the sword is Sigfried's Rhine Journey). A tad too steamy for small children. The spirit Lady of the Lake, who provided and repaired the sword earlier in the movie, was director John Boorman's teenage daughter.

My amateur opinion is the sword found by the little girl is not the style, material, corrosion, etc., appropriate to the 7th century or anything close (presumably the era of Arthur).