

The Great McGonagall
"I am Queen Victoria, and I am very Big in England."
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.
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- Theatrical15 Aug 1975
United KingdomGB
- PremiereRoyal World Charity Premiere, London22 Jan 1975
- Theatrical15Originally AA23 Jan 1975
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- Theatrical1 Jun 1978
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The Great McGonagall was released on 23 January 1975.
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