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This classic Monty Python comedy, directed by Pythons Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, is a hilarious send-up of the grim circumstances of the Middle Ages as told through the story of King Arthur and framed by a modern-day murder investigation. When the mythical king of the Britons leads his knights on a quest for the Holy Grail, they face a wide array of horrors, including a persistent Black Knight, a three-headed giant, a cadre of shrubbery-challenged knights, the perilous Castle Anthrax, a killer rabbit, a house of virgins, and a handful of rude Frenchmen. In addition to the set pieces, the film also includes the same kind of surreal animation that Gilliam contributed to the television series. Throughout the irreverent adventures, the Python crew eschews realism in favour of anachronistic social satire, a recipe it later returned to in the 1979 biblical farce MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN. Melding the ridiculous with the sublime, the film quickly inspired a cult following, generated a host of quotes, and even inspired a computer game 20 years after its release. The numerous songs and hysterical vignettes are side splittingly unforgettable.Product Identifiers
ProducerTerry Jones, Mark Forstater
EAN5050904416419
eBay Product ID (ePID)61608910
Product Key Features
ActorTerry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Carol Cleveland, John Cleese
DirectorTerry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Release Year2005
GenreGeneral, Comedy
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
FormatUMD
LanguageEnglish
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Production DesignerRoy Smith
ReviewsNew York Times - ...A marvelously particular kind of lunatic endeavor....The gags are nonstop...
Certificate15
Subtitle LanguageCzech\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\German\Greek\Hindi\Hungarian\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Russian\Swedish\Turkish
Dubbing LanguagesGerman\Italian
FeaturesWidescreen, With Subtitles
Movie/TV TitleMonty Python and the Holy Grail
ComposerNeil Innes
Sound sourceDolby Digital Mono\Dolby Digital Stereo
FranchiseMonty Python
Aspect Ratio1.85 Wide Screen
ScreenwriterGraham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, John Cleese
CinematographerTerry Bedford
Run Time89 mins
Format DescriptionUMD
EditorJohn Hackney