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The second episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1975 features our pick for a notable filmmaking debut, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Directed by Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam and starring and written by Jones, Gilliam, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin and Eric Idle, Monty Python and the Holy Grail was the first original feature film from the Monty Python comedy troupe.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Vincent Canby in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/28/archives/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail.html), Stanley Kauffmann in The New Republic (https://newrepublic.com/article/83972/monty-python-holy-grail-invitation-kauffmann), and Richard Schickel in Time Magazine (https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,917485,00.html).

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