Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Directed by

Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

Genre

fantasy film, comedy film, adventure film, period drama film, parody film, knight film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 6,463 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

King Arthur and his knights go on a quest for the Holy Grail. They encounter a series of ridiculous obstacles and characters along the way.

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What happens

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 British comedy film based on the Arthurian legend, written and performed by the Monty Python comedy group (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin) and directed by Gilliam and Jones in their feature directorial debuts. It was conceived during the hiatus between the third and fourth series of their BBC Television series Monty Python's Flying Circus. While the group's first film, And Now for Something Completely Different, was a compilation of sketches from the first two television series, Holy Grail is an original story that parodies the legend of King Arthur's quest for the Holy Grail. Thirty years later, Idle used the film as the basis for the 2005 Tony Award–winning musical Spamalot. Monty Python and the Holy Grail grossed more than any other British film screened in the US in 1975, and has since been considered one of the greatest comedy films of all time. In the US, it was selected in 2011 as the second-best comedy of all time in the ABC special Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time behind Airplane!. In the UK, readers of Total Film magazine in 2000 ranked it the fifth-greatest comedy film of all time; a similar poll of Channel 4 viewers in 2006 placed it sixth. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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