The Great McGonagall (1974)

Directors

Joseph McGrath

Cast

Clifton Jones, John Bluthal, Julia Foster, Julian Chagrin, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Valentine Dyall, Victor Spinetti

The story

The film is a humorous biography of the Scottish poet William McGonagall that includes several of McGonagall's poems, his appearing in the title role of Macbeth and his "improvement" of the Bard's plot, his pilgrimage to Balmoral Castle, the attempted assassination of Queen Victoria by Roderick McLean and a tribute to McGonagall from Lt Frederick Rollo of the Royal Scots in Zululand.

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