Lambert the Sheepish Lion

Lambert the Sheepish Lion is a Disney animated short film that was released in 1952. It was directed by Jack Hannah.

The 8-minute film focuses on Lambert, a lion cub that is mistakenly left with a flock of sheep by a stork. Lambert lives his life thinking he is a sheep, but is ostracized by his peers for being and acting different until he is forced to defend the flock from an attack by a hungry wolf (the same wolf from the "Peter and the Wolf" segment from Make Mine Music). Thereafter, the now-adult Lambert is wholeheartedly accepted by the other sheep as one of the flock.
 * Directed by Jack Hannah. Produced by Walt Disney. Story by Bill Peet, Ralph Wright and Milt Banta.

Dialogue

 * Mr. Stork: [looks at his invoice after discovering that he has brought a baby lion to a small sheep pasture] Lambert? But that's no lamb at all. Lambert is a lion! South Africa? Oh, goodness me! I've got to do some flying... [runs over to the flock] Come, Lambert! Uh, pardon me. I beg your pardon... [steps over the other ewes] Sorry, sorry! Oh, uh [laughs] Mrs. Sheep?
 * [Lambert plays with her bell]
 * Mr. Stork: I'm afraid there's been a slight bungle, heh heh. [picks up Lambert] I'll take that vicious little brute and drop him in the jungle. [as he ties Lambert up in his sack, Mrs. Sheep rams him from behind; in the air] Well, goodness. Heavens to Betsy! All right, let her have it. Let her have anything she wants, for heaven's sake. [flies away] I'm only a delivery service. That's all.


 * Narrator: But when he saw this gruesome site...
 * Sheep: Laaambert!
 * Narrator: And heard his mother crying...
 * Sheep: Laaambert!
 * Narrator: Something snapped inside of him. He was a raging lion!

Voice cast

 * Sterling Holloway as Narrator / Mr. Stork
 * June Foray as Mrs. Sheep / Lambert (purring and meowing)
 * Stan Freberg as Lambert
 * Jimmy MacDonald as Wolf / Lambert (roaring)