The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, ultimately used to defeat the Killer Rabbit. ![]() ![]() After a long and roundabout search which leads them to the far corners of the Kingdom and past idiosyncratic knights, the world's oldest harem, and a very nasty rabbit, they discover the Grail is supposedly located in a very old castle, which has fallen into the hands of those heathen enemies- the French. Once he assembles his crew (off-screen, mostly), he has a vision of God (or a reasonable drawing of same by Terry Gilliam based on a famous cricket player ), informing him that to cement his name in immortality, he must seek the Holy Grail- the cup used at the Last Supper of Christ, and which caught his blood after the crucifixion. This 1975 effort was their second go-round (after 1971's And Now for Something Completely Different, which featured redone versions of several sketches from the first two seasons of Circus) and one of their most famous and oft-quoted.Ī complete skewering of the Arthurian Legend, it tells the story of King Arthur and his attempt to build a court at Camelot. ![]() After the success of Monty Python's Flying Circus in the UK and US, the six Ambassadors of Anarchy got the right to make films.
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