Monty Python And The Holy Grail
- 1975 film
The Monty Python team put their own spin on the Arthurian legends. Also features Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and more.
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Joe Allen, Digital Trends, 31st March 2024Monty Python And The Holy Grail is funny and accurate - and that's why we love it, say historians
The classic 1975 comedy comes out on top in a survey of 100 medievalists when asked to name their favourite historical film.
Tim Sigsworth, The Telegraph, 21st February 2024The Monty Python scene that destroyed the camera
Even though it's regularly held up as one of the greatest comedies ever made, the brains behind Monty Python And The Holy Grail have been happy to admit they were resolutely ill-equipped and under-prepared for making a feature film.
Scott Campbell, Far Out, 20th February 2024Monty Python And The Holy Grail returns to cinemas
1975 film Monty Python And The Holy Grail is returning to cinemas in February to celebrate its 48 and a half year anniversary. Some of the screenings will be quote-a-long editions.
British Comedy Guide, 31st January 2024Revealed: Monty Python scenes that almost never made it
Guards stifling their titters at the name 'Biggus Dickus' and the tradesman who insists Brian haggle for a fake beard were almost dropped from the 1979 movie Life Of Brian, Julian Doyle has revealed. Doyle also worked on the Pythons' 1975 Holy Grail film - and said the three-headed giant scene was thought too slow and the Black Knight sketch so outrageously bloody that it would kill the rest of the film.
Chortle, 8th June 2023Monty Python marathon man takes on Corfe Castle
A man attempting to run 52 marathons in a year has completed his latest by running around a castle dressed as King Arthur in a Monty Python tribute.
BBC, 23rd April 2023Johnny Depp blames 'burn Amber' text on Monty Python
Johnny Depp has said text messages he sent about burning and drowning his former partner Amber Heard were a joke based on a Monty Python And The Holy Grail sketch.
BBC, 25th April 2022Spamalot film to go into production
A film based on the musical Monty Python's Spamalot is to be made by Paramount Pictures. Eric Idle has created a complete movie script.
British Comedy Guide, 7th January 2021Holy Grail shares punchline with C15th manuscript
British Library curators have unearthed a 600-year-old version of the punchline seen in the 'Black Knight' scene in the Holy Grail film.
Dominic Penna, The Telegraph, 29th November 2020Favourite film aged 12: Monty Python & the Holy Grail
Monty Python's chivalric sketch show served up epic amounts of daftness - and any adult reservations about it prove mere flesh wounds.
Alfie Packham, The Guardian, 23rd June 2020