The Great McGonagall (film)

The Great McGonagall
UK Quad
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
Release dates	1974 (UK)
Running time	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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Production

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.

Principal cast

Spike Milligan - William McGonagall
Peter Sellers - Queen Victoria
Julia Foster - Mrs. McGonagall
John Bluthal
Victor Spinetti
Valentine Dyall
Clifton Jones
Julian Chagrin
Charlie Young Atom

References

External links

The Great McGonagall at the Internet Movie Database

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