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The Great McGonagall

01/23/1975

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1hr 25min

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Comedy

"I am Queen Victoria, and I am very Big in England."

STORY

In this high-camp farce, Goons legend Spike Milligan stars as William Topaz McGonagall, an unemployed Scottish weaver and aspiring poet laureate who falls in love with Queen Victoria - a brilliant cameo by Peter Sellers - and thereafter devotes his banal poetry to her. Though McGonagall's solicitations are rejected by the Queen, it doesn't stop the turgid prose, and pathos, from overflowing as McGonagall hilariously attempts to become the greatest poet in the land. The image of the bad poet, trapped by his romanticism and inspired by a muse with a tin ear, appealed mightily to Spike Milligan, and this cult British spoof features the Goons show maestro at his ridiculous, genre-defying best.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Spike Milligan
  • Peter Sellers
  • Julia Foster
  • John Bluthal
  • Victor Spinetti

    Director

  • Joseph McGrath

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

    Cast

    Spike Milligan

    William Topaz McGonagall

    Peter Sellers

    Queen Victoria

    Julia Foster

    Mrs. McGonagall

    John Bluthal

    various

    Victor Spinetti

    Valentine Dyall

    Clifton Jones

    Julian Chagrin

    Charlie Young Atom

    Luie Caballero

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