349 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
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This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
349 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
- When Arthur rides into the village where the ``witch'' is about to be burnt,
Bedivere is holding a coconut slung between two swallows.
- Some major scenes scripted, but never filmed:
- additional ``Knights who say Ni!'' scene, they intend to call themselves
``the Knights of Nicky-Nicky''
- additional police detective scenes
- several scenes where Arthur and the knights meet ``King Brian, the Wild''.
- After the Bridgekeeper, they come upon the Boatkeeper. ``He who would
cross the Sea of Fate Must answer me these questions twenty-eight!''
- The gorilla hand turning the pages was director 'Terry Gilliam' (qv)'s.
- At the beginning of the ``Bring out your dead'' scene, two nuns with gigantic
mallets can be seen. The original script called for them to be pounding on a
man tied to a cart, but the scene was cut and that glimpse is all that
remains.
- Many scenes were filmed in a city park beside one of London's busiest
intersections.
- Many subtle instances of cat abuse: during the ``bring out your dead'' scene,
the old woman the knights say ``Ni!'' at, etc.
- Most of the castles were cardboard cutouts, and indeed the trailer shows
one of them falling over.
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