Critic Reviews
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Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Grail is as funny as a movie can get, but it is also a tough-minded picture -- as outraged about the human propensity for violence as it is outrageous in its attack on that propensity.
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Silly, sophomoric, and slapped together -- but would you want it any other way?
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Variety Staff, Variety
Monty Python's Flying Circus, the British comedy group which gained fame via BBC-TV, send-up Arthurian legend, performed in whimsical fashion with Graham Chapman an effective straight man as King Arthur.
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, New York Times
A marvelously particular kind of lunatic endeavor.
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Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News
Holy Grail suffers from the same syndrome that afflicts many of these restored classics: It is better remembered than actually seen.
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Cast
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Connie Boothas The Witch -
Carol Clevelandas Zoot/Dingo -
Rita Daviesas Historian Who Isn't A.J.P. Taylor Honestly's Wife
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Bee Duffellas Old Crone to Whom King Arthur Said "Ni--" -
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Sally Kinghornas Either Winston or Piglet





