The Great McGonagall (1975)

ALL 01/23/1975 (en) Comedy 85 Min
  • Release
    01/23/1975
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    52%
  • Original title
    The Great McGonagall
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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

Overview

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.

  1. Joseph McGrath

    Director

  2. Story



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The Great McGonagall (1975) 85 Min

ALL 01/23/1975 (en)
Comedy
  • Release 01/23/1975
  • Production
  • Original title The Great McGonagall
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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

Overview

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.

  1. Joseph McGrath

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Rusty Coppleman

    Editor

  4. David Hamilton-Grant

    Producer