The Great McGonagall

The Great McGonagall (1975)

Comedy

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.

Director: Joseph McGrath
Writers: Spike Milligan, Joseph McGrath.

Casts

	Spike Milligan as William Topaz McGonagall
	Peter Sellers as Queen Victoria
	Julia Foster as Mrs. McGonagall
	John Bluthal as various
	Victor Spinetti as
	Valentine Dyall as
	Clifton Jones as
	Julian Chagrin as
	Charlie Young Atom as
	Luie Caballero as

Crew