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Published: Oct 16th, 2009
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Monty Python & The Holy Grail Poster

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Here are some great, cheap movie posters from the class film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Click on a movie poster for more info!

In 1974, between production on the third and fourth TV series (the latter of which Cleese declined to take part in for a variety of reasons), the group decided that the time was now right to embark on their first “proper” feature film, containing entirely new material. Monty Python and the Holy Grail was based on Arthurian Legend and was directed by both Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam. The latter also contributed linking animations (and put together the opening credits). Along with the rest of the Pythons, Jones and Gilliam performed several roles in the film, but it was Chapman who took the lead as King Arthur. Holy Grail was filmed on location, throughout several picturesque rural areas of Scotland, with a tiny budget of around £150,000 (approx. $350,000 in 1974); the money was raised in part with investments from rock groups, such as Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, and Led Zeppelin, and UK music industry entrepreneur Tony Stratton-Smith (founder/owner of the Charisma Records label, for which the Pythons recorded their song albums).

The weather was poor and the ‘chain mail’ (actually woolen garments painted silver) just soaked up the rain; the budget only allowed for low-quality hotels, which could not provide sufficient hot water for the team to bathe every evening; Gilliam and Jones argued with each other and with the other Pythons. Terry Gilliam later said in an interview that “everything that could go wrong did go wrong.”

Holy Grail is the only time any of them can remember the usually amiable Palin losing his temper. This occurred when Jones and Gilliam insisted on repeatedly reshooting a scene in which Palin played a character called “the mud eater.” Palin was upset when he realised that after numerous takes of being covered in mud and eating mud that the mud-eating wouldn’t actually be visible on-screen.