Subj : Re: Spike Milligan cameo in Holy Grail
To : Reverend Ozone
From : Reverend Ozone
Date : Mon Aug 18 2008 09:24 pm
From: "Reverend Ozone" <
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For reasons known only to Him, *Newsgroups* typed:
> Hi group,
>
> The Spike Milligan cameo in 'Life of Brian' is well-recognised, but did
> Spike Milligan *also* had a cameo role in 'Monty Python and the Holy
> Grail'?
>
> There are two quick shots in the 'Burn the Witch' scene that look
> awfully like him.
>
> The first shot is when the crowd of peasants are rushing towards
> Bedivere with the witch in tow. The Eric Idle peasant holding the sickle
> calls out, 'We've found a witch', and shortly afterwards, the Michael
> Palin peasant puts his face in the camera and says, 'We've got a witch'.
> Almost immediately after that, we see a white-haired man in the crowd
> with shaving cream on his face.
>
> The second shot is immediately after the witch has been placed onto the
> scales. There is a quick shot of the same white-heaired man with shaving
> cream on his face, framed between a youth with a hat and a man with a beard.
>
> The shots are otherwise unimportant, and seem to be there precisely in
> order to serve as vehicles for a cameo. They look like Milligan, even
> underneath the shaving cream.
>
> I can't find any previous discussion on this matter. Any thoughts?
Hmmm, hadn't heard of this before but I did a cursory look around the MPATHG
site (and his own) on IMDB.com and found nothing to connect him with "Grail".
Now I'm gonna have to watch it /again/, you've got me curious.
--
Reverend Ozone
"Non illegitimi carborundum est"
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