Poster movie

The Great McGonagall

Comedy

Lenguage:85 min

Duration:en

Release date:Jan 23, 1975

Calificacion:5.2

Description:

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.

Cast

Spike Milligan
Spike MilliganWilliam Topaz McGonagall
Peter Sellers
Peter SellersQueen Victoria
Julia Foster
Julia FosterMrs. McGonagall
John Bluthal
John Bluthalvarious
Victor Spinetti
Victor Spinetti
Valentine Dyall
Valentine Dyall
Clifton Jones
Clifton Jones
Julian Chagrin
Julian Chagrin
Charlie Young Atom
Charlie Young Atom
Luie Caballero
Luie Caballero

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