''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'' is a British film of 2001 directed by David Lister and starring

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. The film was made in South Africa but is set in England.

Outline

The wicked sorceress

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) plans to rule the world, but for fourteen hundred years all her efforts have failed. Once in every century, she tries to recover Fingall’s magic staff and unite it with a magic stone in the possession of the wizard

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, a combination of devastating power. Merlin, now an elderly man living under the name of Milner (

), still has the stone.Barbara Tepa Lupack, ''Adapting the Arthurian Legends for Children: Essays on Arthurian Juvenilia'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
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phase9.tv, accessed 3 July 2022 Milner befriends a neighbour, a fourteen-year old boy called Ben Clark (Byron Taylor), who has recently migrated from South Africa, and sees that he has the same scar as a bearer of Fingall’s staff that he had known in the 6th century. Ben is fascinated by magic, and Milner begins to teach him to be a magician. The staff of Fingall is now on display in a museum of which Ben’s father (

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) is the curator. As Morgana enters the story, Ben has to make his own choice between good and evil.

Cast

as Milner *Byron Taylor as Ben Clark *Anne Power as Carol Clark *

as Mike Clark *Dale Cutts as Fingall *

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as Sly *Martin Le Maitre as Filo *Clinton Dooley as Mark Evans *Roxanne Burger as Nicole *Terence Reis as First Knight *Lawrence Joffe as Second Knight *Sean Taylor as schoolteacher

Notes

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