| 5th | Top films based on Arthurian legend |
| Unidentified Flying Oddball | |
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| Directed by | Russ Mayberry |
| Produced by | Hugh Attwooll Ron W. Miller |
| Written by | Mark Twain (novel) Don Tait (screen story) |
| Release date(s) | 1979 |
| Language | English |
Unidentified Flying Oddball, also known as The Spaceman and King Arthur, (1979) is Walt Disney’s movie adaptation of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. It was directed by Russ Mayberry. Subsequently re-released in the United States under the titles The Spaceman and King Arthur and A Spaceman in King Arthur’s Court, and directed by Russ Mayberry, the film starred Dennis Dugan as astronaut Tom Trimble who unintentionally travels back in time with his look-alike android Hermes. Trimble’s NASA spacecraft travels faster than the speed of light, landing him and the android near King Arthur’s Camelot, where – with the aid of their 20th century technology – they must defeat a plot by the evil Sir Mordred and Merlin to oust King Arthur from the throne.
In a quite unusual fashion, Merlin is presented as an evil character intent on dethroning Arthur, (although he also appears as such in Twain's original novel, as well as the 1949 movie adaptation of same starring Bing Crosby).
* Credited on-screen only as Tom Trimble.
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