B00005O3VC

043396052765

1975

1975-05-25

91

1h 31min

Top rated movie #144 , Awards, 3 wins & 3 nominations

Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle

Mark Forstater, John Goldstone, Michael White

Terry Bedford

John Hackney

Roy Forge Smith

Hazel Pethig

Pam Luke, Pearl Rashbass

Julian Doyle

Gerry Harrison

Graham Bullock, Roy Cannon, Nobby Clark, Philip Cowlam, Bob Devine, Bill Harman, Mike Kennedy, Tom Raeburn, Jim N. Savery, Charles Torbett, Brian Winterborn, Terry Gilliam

Philip Chubb, Ian Crafford, Bob Doyle, John Foster, Godfrey Kirby, Garth Marshall, Hugh Strain, Campbell Askew, Jean-Raphaël Dedieu, Nicolas Gaster

Valerie Charlton, John Horton

Julian Doyle

Howard Atherton, Ray Hall, Kent Houston, Terry Hunt, Roger Pratt, Ed Sullivan, John Wellard

Lucinda Cowell, Kate Hepburn, Terry Gilliam

Charles Knode

Campbell Askew, David Bernstein, Nicolas Gaster, Danielle Kochavi, John Mister, Brian Peachey

Fats Waller

Penny Eyles

Brian Brockwell, Leo Kharibian, John Waller, Christine Watt, Michael White, Richard Burton, Mark Zycon

Gary Cooper

Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Python (Monty) Pictures, Michael White Productions, National Film Trustee Company

UK

English, French, Latin, Swedish

PG

8.2

538141

91

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 British comedy film satirizing 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 British film exhibited in the US in 1975. 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.

£229,575 (estimated)

$45,487

$1,827,696

$1,940,906

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