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Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 British

surreal comedy film concerning the Arthurian legend,
written and performed by the comedy group of Monty
Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam,
Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin), and directed
by Gilliam and Jones. It was conceived during the hiatus
between the third and fourth series of their BBC
television series Monty Python's Flying Circus.
In contrast to the group's first film, And Now for
Something Completely Different, a compilation of
sketches from the first two television series, Holy Grail
draws on new material. It parodies the legend of King
Arthur's quest to find the Holy Grail. Idle used the film
as the basis for the musical Spamalot 30 years later.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail grossed more than any
British film exhibited in the U.S. in 1975. The film
received a 97% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with
the consensus: "a cult classic as gut-bustingly hilarious as
it is blithely ridiculous". In the US, the film was selected
as the second best comedy of all time in the ABC special
Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time; in the
UK, readers of Total Film magazine ranked the film the
fifth greatest comedy film of all time, and a similar poll
of Channel 4 viewers placed the film sixth (2000).[2]

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Plot
Cast
Production
Soundtrack
Television broadcast
Home media
Reaction and legacy
7.1 Re-release
8 See also
9 References
10 Further reading
11 External links

Plot

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

UK quad poster

Directed by

Terry Gilliam
Terry Jones

Produced by

Mark Forstater
Michael White

Written by

Monty Python

Starring

Graham Chapman
John Cleese
Terry Gilliam
Eric Idle
Terry Jones
Michael Palin

Music by

Dewolfe
Songs:
Neil Innes

Cinematography Terry Bedford

Edited by

John Hackney

Production
companies

Michael White Productions

Python (Monty) Pictures
National Film Trustee
Company

Distributed by

EMI Films (UK)

Cinema 5 Distributing (US)

Release dates

April 9, 1975 (London)

Running time

91 minutes

Country

United Kingdom

Language

English

Budget

$400,000

Box office

$5 million[1]

In 932 A.D., King Arthur, along with his squire, Patsy, are traveling throughout England searching for men to
join his Knights of the Round Table. Arthur's first stop is at a castle where the guards ask how Arthur found

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