The Great McGonagall (film)
| The Great McGonagall | |
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UK Quad
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| Directed by | Joseph McGrath |
| Written by |
Joseph McGrath Spike Milligan |
| Starring |
Spike Milligan Peter Sellers Julia Foster John Bluthal Victor Spinetti |
| Music by | John Shakespeare |
| Distributed by | Tigon British Film Productions |
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Release date
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1974 (UK) |
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Running time
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85 Mins |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Great McGonagall is a 1974 British comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Spike Milligan in the title role, Peter Sellers as Queen Victoria and Julia Foster as Mrs McGonagall. It is a humorous biopic of the Scottish poet William McGonagall that includes several of McGonagall's actual poems, his appearing in the title role of Macbeth and his "improvement" of the Bard's plot, his pilgrimage to Balmoral Castle, the attempted assassination of Queen Victoria by Roderick McLean and a tribute to McGonagall from Lt Frederick Rollo of the Royal Scots in Zululand.
On the DVD commentary Joseph McGrath recounted that the film was made in three weeks at Wilton's Music Hall in London, including one week of rehearsal. Peter Sellers was only on the film for one week. The film was produced by British pornography producer David Grant who forced McGrath to put in some nude scenes and used the film as a tax write off. McGrath also dubbed midget Charlie Atom's lines when he was unavailable for the dubbing of the film.
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