Monty Python & the Holy Grail [1975] (2 discs)

Director:	Terry Gilliam Terry Jones
Writer:	Eric Idle Graham Chapman John Cleese Michael Palin Terry Gilliam Terry Jones

IMDB Rating:	8.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes Rating:	94%
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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!"

Select Cast and Crew

Terry Gilliam	=>	Director / Writer / Animator / Patsy / Gorrilla Hand / Green Knight / Old Man from scene 24 (Bridgekeeper) / Sir Bors

Terry Jones	=>	Director / Writer / Left Head / Voice of Cartoon Scribe / Prince Herbert / Dennis's Mother / Sir Bedevere

Eric Idle	=>	Writer / First Swamp Castle Guard / Concorde / Dead Collector / Roger the Shrubber / Peasant 1 / Brother Maynard / Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Launcelot

Graham Chapman	=>	Writer / Voice of God / Middle Head / Hiccoughing Guard / King Arthur

John Cleese	=>	Writer / Tim the Enchanter / The Black Knight / Peasant 3 / Sir Lancelot, the Brave / Taunting French Guard / Second Swallow-Savvy Guard

Michael Palin	=>	Writer / Dennis / Narrator / Peasant 2 / Sir Galahad the Pure / Leader of The Knights who say NI! / Right Head / Brother Maynard's Brother / First Swallow-Savvy Guard / King of Swamp Castle

Connie Booth	=>	The Witch

Neil Innes	=>	Peasant #4 / Page Crushed by the Rabbit / Singing Minstrel / First Monk

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 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 Idle starts to laugh and bites his scythe to contain it.
The chain mail costumes worn by the knights were simply knitted wool.