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Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Written by
Produced by
Starring
  • Graham Chapman
  • John Cleese
  • Terry Gilliam
  • Eric Idle
  • Terry Jones
  • Michael Palin
Narrated byMichael Palin
CinematographyTerry Bedford
Edited byJohn Hackney
Music byNeil Innes (songs)
De Wolfe Music
Production
companies
Distributed byEMI Films
Release date
  • 3 April 1975 (1975-04-03)
Running time
92 minutes[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£282,035[2]
Box office£2,358,229 (1975 run)[2]
$5,507,090 (rereleases)[3]

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 screened 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;[4] a similar poll of Channel 4 viewers in 2006 placed it sixth.[5]

  1. ^ "Monty Python and the Holy Grail (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. 28 August 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
  2. ^ a b Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 357. Income is distributor's receipts, combined domestic and international, as at 31 Dec 1978.
  3. ^ "Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)". The Numbers.
  4. ^ "Life of Brian tops comedy poll". BBC News. Retrieved 18 January 2014
  5. ^ "50 Greatest Comedy Films". London: Channel 4. 2006. Archived from the original on 15 April 2006. Retrieved 25 August 2019.