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[struth]

Old favorite now...Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975.... Chapman, Cleese, Gilliam, Idle, Jones and Palin among others give the Arthurian legend a makeover.




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. In the UK, readers of Total Film magazine in 2000 ranked it the fifth-greatest comedy film of all time; a similar poll of Channel 4 viewers in 2006 placed it sixth.

The film's initial budget of approximately £200,000 was raised by convincing 10 separate investors to contribute £20,000 apiece. Three of those investors were the rock bands Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Genesis, who were persuaded to help fund the film by Tony Stratton-Smith, head of Charisma Records (the record label that released Python's early comedy albums). According to Terry Gilliam, the Pythons turned to rock stars like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Elton John for finance as the studios refused to fund the film and rock stars saw it as "a good tax write-off" due to UK income tax being "as high as 90%" at the time.

The film made £5m from an eventual budget of £400k. Things never go to plan.


"come and see the violence inherant in the system"

[Macca]

Farcical aquatic ceremony.

[struth]

bring up the holy hand grenade of antioch

[Macca]

lol

I don't watch that film very often for fear of ruining it for myself.

[struth]

lol... another top comedy..although watched recently im going again as its good stuff... Ruthless People, 1986.. Bette Midler in foul mood, is a class apart, but fairly closely followed by mad, bad Danny Devito taking pot shots at the poodle..

“Her father was very, very rich, and very, very sick. The doctors assured me he'd be dead any minute. There wasn't a second to lose! I rushed right out and married the boss's daughter. He was so sick, it was like the Angel of Death was sitting in the room with him, watching the clock. They pulled the plug on him... he wheezed and shook for about an hour... and then... he stabilized. The son-of-a-bitch just got older and sicker. And older, and sicker, and older and sicker!”

[struth]

Escape to Athena, 1979. directed by George P. Cosmatos. It stars Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, David Niven, Stefanie Powers, Claudia Cardinale, Richard Roundtree, Sonny Bono and Elliott Gould.



According to a number of sources, this film's motorcycle chase scene is, as one critic said, "one of the most memorable motorcycle chase scenes in cinematic history"

It wasnt successful alas and the director was widely hated by cast and crew, although Niven's son(who produced) reconed they all had a whale of a time otherwise.

[walpurgis]

According to a number of sources, this film's motorcycle chase scene is, as one critic said, "one of the most memorable motorcycle chase scenes in cinematic history"

It couldn't have been that memorable, I don't remember it and I watched the film recently . Didn't rate it too highly actually.

[struth]

motorbike chase..

[walpurgis]

Funny how the bikes seem to be seventies Russian jobs, probably Ural brand, but there were several derived from old German BMW bike designs. Part of war reparations as I recall.

[struth]

funny how the bikes seem to be seventies russian jobs, probably ural brand, but there were several derived from old german bmw bike designs. Part of war reparations as i recall.

betting old bikes might not be up to it now and may also be too valuable