Show Business: Legendary Lunacy

MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL

Directed by TERRY GILLIAM and TERRY JONES

Screenplay by GRAHAM CHAPMAN,

JOHN CLEESE, TERRY GILLIAM, ERIC IDLE,

TERRY JONES, MICHAEL PALIN

King Arthur, as London's Monty Python troupe imagines him, is really an awfully sensible, decent chap. Played by Graham Chapman, he is the kind of tweedy fellow who should be sitting on the Tory party backbench in modern Britain rather than running around 6th century England forming Round Tables and looking for holy grails.

The king's enlightened path is always blocked by problems. One of them is a movable castle full of French knights who defend their ramparts...

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