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Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones · 1975 CE · Film · English · Contemporary

A king with no horse gathers knights across a plague-ridden Britain by explaining his mandate to peasants who would rather debate it, and is then sent by God to find the Grail. The company splits up and meets a black-armoured knight who will not concede, a castle of women, and a rabbit. Made for a few hundred thousand pounds raised from rock bands, it pads its gaps with cut-out animation.

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