Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a British feature film of the comedy genre. It was directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones and written by the whole Monty Python team, who made Life of Brian four years later. It was produced by Mark Forstater and Michael White and premiered in the US on April 27, 1975. The movie stars Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin - who play the hilarious knights of Camelot who are on their quest to find the Holy Grail.
Plot[]
King Arthur (Chapman) and his servant Patsy (Gilliam) are looking for knights to join the Round Table of Camelot, until they stumble onto a swamp being guarded by The Black Knight who fights King Arthur until all of his limbs are missing. At a witch trail, many citizens try to convince a man that Miss Islington is a witch. King Arthur helps them figure out she's a witch and the man is put in the round table and will know be known as Sir Bedevere (Jones). A book then tells us who also joined the round table, that being Sir Lancelot (Cleese), Brave Sir Robin (Idle) and Sir Galahad (Palin). After thinking Camelot is too silly they meet God who tells them to find the holy grail, where the knights meet the French Taunter, who taunts them and starts throwing dead animals at them, until the knights agree too split up on their quest for the holy grail. King Arthur, Patsy and Sir Bedevere search for the holy grail and find many knights who say "Ni!" who ask for a shrubbery but are defeated when King Arthur finds Sir Robin who keep saying "it" the word the knights who say "Ni!" cannot hear. While Brave Sir Robin, and his singing servants walk up a mountain and meet a three headed beast who are always bickering and Sir Robin slips past them while his servants sing a song called "Sir Robin bravely ran away". Sir Galahad sees the holy grail in a castle and walks in it and sees it is populated with only girls. The girls try to heal but are very creepy, as they have a huge crush on Sir Galahad, who gets furious and is then save by Sir Lancelot. At a swamp (before he saved Sir Galahad) Sir Lancelot finds a message from the swamp castle, that says that a boy is being forced to marry someone by his father, so Sir Lancelot runs toward the castle had stabs thousands of people with his sword and then finds the boy, and his father. The lord of the Swamp Castle sees his son trying to escape while he talks to Sir Lancelot, and agrees to allow him to his son's wedding, while his son falls out the window. The lord of the castle tells his citizens about the confusion and his son his rescued by a knight, and then his son starts singing and Sir Lancelot escapes. When the round table knights reunite and walk up some rocky mountains where they meet Tim the Enchanter who leads them to the Cave of Caerbannong which is being guarded by a "killer rabbit" but the knights think Tim is joking so they send Sir Ector, Sir Gawain and Sir Bors to kill the rabbit, but the rabbit malls them until two brothers, at their funeral throw the holy hand grenade at the rabbit which kills it. One of the Holy Hand Grenade Brothers joins on the holy grail quest and they go into the cave. They find a text that talks about a beast in the cave, which ends with "aaggrh". They are confused until they see The Black Beast of Arggh who eats the Holy Hand Grenade brother and chases after the knights until the beast's animator dies of a heart-attack. The knights come out of the cave and have to answer questions from a creepy old man inordor to pass the bridge, but only 3 knights come out alive, that being King Arthur, Sir Bedevere and the missing Sir Lancelot, then finally they find the holy grail, but it's in the French Taunter's castle so millions of knights charge toward the castle until the police force arrests them all for killing a famous historian named Frank
Appearances[]
Characters[]
- King Arthur, king of the Britons
- Sir Bedevere the Wise
- Sir Lancelot the Brave
- Brave Sir Robin, The-Not-So-Brave-as-Sir-Lancelot
- Sir Galahad the Pure
- Patsy, Arthur's servant
- The Coconut Holding Swallow
- Dennis and his Mother
- The Black Knight
- "Bring Out Your Dead" Man
- Miss Islington, the 'witch'
- God
- Frank the Historian
- Frank's Wife
- The French Taunter
- Creepy Old Man
- Knights who say "Ni"
- Zoot and Dingo
- Lord of Swamp Castle
- The Stupid Castle Guards
- Herbert the son of the Lord of Swamp Castle
- Three Headed Monster
- Tim the Enchanter
- Sir Ector
- Sir Gawain
- Sir Bors
- Holy Hand Grenade Brothers
- The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog
- The Black Beast of Aarrgh
- Heart-attacked Animator
- Police Officers
Locations[]
- Camelot
- French Taunter's Castle
- Swamp Castle
- Cave of Caerbannog