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Monty Python and the Holy Grail had its theatrical debut in London on 3 April 1975, [34] followed by a screening on 27 April 1975 at the Century Plaza Cinemas in Los Angeles. [35] It opened to the public in the United States at Cinema II in New York City on 28 April.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Directed by Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones. With Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam. King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.
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- Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
- 1975-05-25
Oct 28, 2023 · Prior to the release of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" in 1975, the British comedy group had only released sketches, and the film was their first feature-length narrative.
A modern-day historian filming a documentary on the Arthurian legends is killed by a knight on horseback, triggering a police investigation. On the knights' travels, Arthur and Bedevere are given directions by an old man and attempt to satisfy the strange requests of the dreaded Knights Who Say "Ni!" (Sandy Johnson).
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King Arthur, accompanied by his servant Patsy, is recruiting his Knights of the Round Table throughout England. He is frustrated at every turn by anarcho-syndicalist peasants, a Black Knight that refuses to die, and guards that are more concerned with the flight patterns of swallows than their lord and master. Finally he meets Sir Bedevere the Wise...
The film was shot on location in Scotland, particularly around Doune Castle, Glen Coe, and the privately owned Castle Stalker. The many castles seen throughout the film were either Doune Castle shot from different angles or cardboard models held up against the horizon. (This was referenced in Patsy's famous line, the dismissive "It's only a model" ...
Graham Chapman as Arthur, King of the Britons, he also played as the voice of God, The Middle Head and also The Hiccuping Guard at Swamp CastleJohn Cleese as Sir Lancelot the Brave, "Coconuts and Swallows" Guard #2, Customer, The Black Knight, Peasant #3, French Taunter, Knight and Tim the EnchanterEric Idle as Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Lancelot, Peasant #1, The Non-Understanding Stupid Guard at Swamp Castle, Sir Lancelot's Servant Concorde, The Plague Dead Collector, Roger the...Terry Jones as mainly Sir Bedevere the Wise and also played Dennis' Mother, The Left Head, Swamp Castle's Prince Herbertand the voice of an animated ScribeThe Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the movie's official soundtrack, is less of a soundtrack and more of a comedy album in its own right, which depicts the "premiere" of the film along with several other sketches intercutting scenes from the movie. The flagellant monks are chanting a phrase fro...
The first home video version was released in 1981 on VHS and Betamax formats under the Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment label, and was reissued by the same company in 1982. The first DVD was released in 1999 and boasted only a non-anamorphic print, about two pages of production notes, and trailers for other Sony Pictures Warner Bros. 20th Centu...
Both Versions #1 & #2 open with the 1993 Columbia TriStar Home Video logo, then we see the usual CTHV FBI Warning, then, like the 1981 VHS, the 1979 Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment logo appears, followed by a screen reading "From Cinema 5".
At the end, there are two different scenarios. If one wishes to see version #1, the last few seconds of the intermission music play over the 1979 Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment warning screens, like in the 1981 VHS. If one sees version #2, the warnings are blacked out and when the music ends, it goes straight to the black screen.
In 1985, an unofficial text adventure game called The Quest for the Holy Grailappeared for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers, released as a budget title on cassette tape by Mastertronic. While the game borrowed many concepts from the movie (the three headed knight, the white rabbit, holy hand grenade, shrubbery, etc.), the plot of the game...
Feb 29, 2024 · Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 film about King Arthur and his knights who embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many very silly obstacles. Written by Monty Python, directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. And now!
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 British comedy film written and performed by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin), and directed by Gilliam and Jones.
