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{{Short description|1975 British comedy film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Monty Python and the Holy Grail
| image          = Monty-Python-1975-poster.png
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Terry Gilliam]]
* [[Terry Jones]]
}}
| producer       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Mark Forstater]]
* [[Michael White (producer)|Michael White]]
}}
| writer         = {{Plainlist|
* [[Graham Chapman]]
* [[John Cleese]]
* [[Eric Idle]]
* Terry Gilliam
* Terry Jones
* [[Michael Palin]]
}}
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* Graham Chapman
* John Cleese
* Terry Gilliam
* Eric Idle
* Terry Jones
* Michael Palin
}}
| narrator       = Michael Palin
| music          = [[Neil Innes]] <small>(songs)</small><br>[[De Wolfe Music]]
| cinematography = Terry Bedford
| editing        = John Hackney
| production_companies = {{Plainlist|
* [[Python (Monty) Pictures]]
* Michael White Productions
* National Film Trustee Company
}}
| distributor    = [[EMI Films]]
| released       = {{Film date|1975|04|03|df=y}}
| runtime        = 92 minutes<!--Theatrical runtime: 92:10--><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/monty-python-and-holy-grail-film | title=''Monty Python and the Holy Grail'' (12A) | work=[[British Board of Film Classification]] | date=28 August 2015 | access-date=24 September 2016 | archive-date=12 August 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812073421/https://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/monty-python-and-holy-grail-film | url-status=dead }}</ref>
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = English
| budget         = £282,035<ref name="money">Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 357. Income is distributor's receipts, combined domestic and international, as at 31 Dec 1978.</ref>
| gross          = £2,358,229 (1975 run)<ref name="money"/><br />$5,507,090 (rereleases)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Monty-Python-and-the-Holy-Grail-(1975)#tab=box-office |title=Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) |work=The Numbers |access-date=6 December 2023 |archive-date=11 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811125828/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1975/0MNTP.php#tab=box-office |url-status=live }}</ref>	
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'''''Monty Python and the Holy Grail''''' is a 1975 British [[comedy film]]<!-- Do not alter genre without discussion. -->  based on the [[Arthurian legend]], written and performed by the [[Monty Python]] comedy group ([[Graham Chapman]], [[John Cleese]], [[Terry Gilliam]], [[Eric Idle]], [[Terry Jones]], and [[Michael Palin]]) and directed by Gilliam and Jones in their feature directorial debuts. It was conceived during the hiatus between the third and fourth series of their [[BBC Television]] series ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''.

While the group's first film, ''[[And Now for Something Completely Different]]'', was a compilation of [[sketch comedy|sketches]] from the first two television series, ''Holy Grail'' is an original story that parodies the legend of [[King Arthur]]'s quest for the [[Holy Grail]]. Thirty years later, Idle used the film as the basis for the 2005 [[Tony Award]]-winning musical ''[[Spamalot]]''.

''Monty Python and the Holy Grail'' grossed more than any other [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British film]] screened in the US in 1975, and has since been considered one of the [[List of films voted the best|greatest comedy films of all time]]. In the US, it was selected in 2011 as the second-best comedy of all time in the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] special ''Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time'' behind ''[[Airplane!]]''. In the UK, readers of ''[[Total Film]]'' magazine in 2000 ranked it the fifth-greatest comedy film of all time;<ref name="BBC News">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/948331.stm "Life of Brian tops comedy poll"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090101023333/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/948331.stm |date=1 January 2009 }}. BBC News. Retrieved 18 January 2014</ref> a similar poll of [[Channel 4]] viewers in 2006 placed it sixth.<ref name="Channel 4">{{Cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/microsites/G/greatest-comedyfilms/results/10-6.html|title=50 Greatest Comedy Films|year=2006|publisher=[[Channel 4]]|location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060415140210/http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/microsites/G/greatest-comedyfilms/results/10-6.html|archive-date=15 April 2006|url-status=dead|access-date=25 August 2019}}</ref>