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Monty Python & the Holy Grail [1975] (2 discs) ... |  | |
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| Length: | 91 minutes
(1 hour 31 minutes) | | MPAA Rating: | PG | | Suggested Event Use: | April Fools | | Sorting Category: | Comedy | | Sorting Tub: | Delta |
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| | Classifications: | - Comedy
- Fantasy
- Dark Comedy
- Action
- Cartoon
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Synopsis: King Arthur and his new knights are sent on a quest for the ultimate relic in the christian world.
Reaction: Off the wall and a bit risqué at times, but there are innumerable quotable scenes here.
Personal Rating: 7/10
Highlights
"Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin ran away!" |
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Select Cast and Crew | Terry GilliamTerry Gilliam | => | Director / Writer / Gorrilla Hand / Green Knight / Old Man from scene 24 (Bridgekeeper) / Sir Bors / Animator / Patsy | |
| Terry JonesTerry Jones | => | Director / Writer / Voice of Cartoon Scribe / Prince Herbert / Dennis's Mother / Sir Bedevere / Left Head | |
| Eric IdleEric Idle | => | Writer / Dead Collector / Concorde / Peasant 1 / Roger the Shrubber / Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Launcelot / Brother Maynard / First Swamp Castle Guard | |
| Graham ChapmanGraham Chapman | => | Writer / Middle Head / Hiccoughing Guard / King Arthur / Voice of God | |
| John CleeseJohn Cleese | => | Writer / Peasant 3 / Sir Lancelot, the Brave / Taunting French Guard / Second Swallow-Savvy Guard / Tim the Enchanter / The Black Knight | |
| Michael PalinMichael Palin | => | Writer / Sir Galahad the Pure / Leader of The Knights who say NI! / Peasant 2 / Right Head / Brother Maynard's Brother / King of Swamp Castle / First Swallow-Savvy Guard / Narrator / Dennis | |
| Connie BoothConnie Booth | => | The Witch | |
| Neil InnesNeil Innes | => | Page Crushed by the Rabbit / Singing Minstrel / First Monk / Peasant #4 |
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Random Trivia For This Title: - There are numerous instances of cat abuse because this was set in the time of the bubonic plague. Cats were the friends of witches, who supposedly spread the plague, so as many cats as possible were slaughtered. People began keeping lap dogs because they thought that the plague would reach the animal first and not get to them. This was, in fact, partly true. The fleas that really spread the plague did bite the dogs and not the people.
- Funds earned by Pink Floyd's album "The Dark Side of the Moon" went towards funding The Holy Grail. The band were such fans of the show they would halt recording sessions just to watch [Monty Python's Flying Circus].
- Unusually for a Monty Python feature, all the female roles (apart from Dennis's mother, played by Terry JonesTerry Jones) are played by women. In the TV series, almost all the female roles are played by men.
- The airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow is roughly 11 meters per second, or 24 miles per hour, beating its wings 7-9 times per second rather than 43. And a 5 ounce bird cannot carry a one pound coconut.
- During a long pause during the witch scene, Eric IdleEric Idle starts to laugh and bites his scythe to contain it.
- The chain mail costumes worn by the knights were simply knitted wool.
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