That matchless British farceur Spike Milligan stars in The Great McGonagall. The story concerns indigent Scotsman William McGonagall, who aspires to become Poet Laureate of Great Britain. McGonagall might have a better chance of accomplishing this if he had any talent, but he is hilariously inept. The plot is abandoned somewhere in the middle of the film in favor of a series of virtually unrelated comic episodes. Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan's onetime Goon Show cohort, steals the show in drag as a sexually voracious Queen Victoria!
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Audio Commentary by director Joe McGrath and comedy historian Robert Ross. Cast and Crew BiographiesDIRECTOR | STARRING |
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Joseph McGrath |
Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Julia Foster, John Bluthal, Victor Spinetti |