Lambert the Sheepish Lion (1952)

7.0 ? Feb 08, 1952 0h 8m

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Overview

Disney Legend Sterling Holloway narrates this classic animated short. A mix-up by Mr. Stork finds a little lion cub in the care of a gentle flock of sheep. Doted on by his mother, but teased by the other lambs, Lambert soon grows to become a massive lion, but as shy and gentle as the ewe who raised him. When a hungry wolf begins to stalk the herd, will Lambert find the courage to protect his mama?

Overview

Genres

Animation

Release Date

February 08, 1952

Rating

7.0 /10

Runtime

0h 8m

Sterling Holloway

Narrator

June Foray

Mrs. Sheep/Lambert (purring and meowing)/Lambs (voice)

Stan Freberg

Lambert (voice)

James MacDonald

Wolf / Lambert (roaring) (voice)

CinemaSerf

7.0/10

Jan 11, 2026

When the stork takes a breather from delivering it’s hefty parcel, it gets seen off by a possessive ewe who decides to keep the occupant of the bundle and raise it as her own. The other sheep like to tease the newborn because, well even they can see it’s not a sheep. They don’t know what it is, but we know it's a lion cub - and a fairly placid one at that. Then enter a peckish wolf that sees the flock as easy pickings. What chance the now fully grown lion can grow a pair of claws and learn to roar? It’s good fun this animation, with a little bit of an understated moral to it and quite a bit of mischief thrown in too as it moves along nicely for eight minutes with a solid story and jaunty score underpinning the characters.

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