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The Great McGonagall (1975)
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.
Updated May 22 2020
Cast
Spike Milligan
William Topaz McGonagall
Julia Foster
Mrs. McGonagall
Crew
Spike Milligan
Screenplay
Joseph McGrath
Screenplay
Rusty Coppleman
Editor
Peter Lamb
Executive Producer
John Mackey
Photoscience Manager
Joe McGrath
Director
Kamal Pasha
Executive Producer
David Grant
Producer
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