The Great McGonagall (Movie)

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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1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972) (Movie) (2)
   

   Peter Sellers...The March Hare

   

   Spike Milligan...Gryphon
2. Down Among the Z Men (1952) (Movie) (2)
   

   Peter Sellers...Major Bloodnok

   

   Spike Milligan...Pvt. Eccles
3. Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1974) (Movie) (2)
   

   Peter Sellers...Dick Scratcher

   

   Spike Milligan...Bill Bombay
4. Let's Go Crazy (1951) (Movie) (2)
   

   Peter Sellers...Multiple Roles

   

   Spike Milligan...Multiple Roles
5. Penny Points to Paradise (1951) (Movie) (2)
   

   Spike Milligan...Spike Donnelly

   

   Peter Sellers...The Major / Arnold Fringe
6. Simon Simon (1970) (Movie) (2)
   

   Julia Foster...1st Typist

   

   Peter Sellers...Man with two cars
7. Spike (1996) (Movie) (2)
   

   Spike Milligan...Himself

   

   Peter Sellers...Himself
8. Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace (2014) (Movie) (2)
   

   Spike Milligan...Himself (archive footage)

   

   Peter Sellers...Himself (archive footage)
9. The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn (1956) (Movie) (2)
   

   Peter Sellers...Assorted

   

   Spike Milligan...Assorted
10. The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2018) (Movie) (2)
    

    Peter Sellers...Himself (Archive)

    

    Spike Milligan...Himself (Archive)
11. The Last Goon Show of All (1972) (Movie) (2)
    

    Peter Sellers...

    

    Spike Milligan...
12. The Magic Christian (1969) (Movie) (2)
    

    Peter Sellers...Sir Guy Grand KG, KC, CBE

    

    Spike Milligan...Traffic Warden
13. The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959) (Movie) (2)
    

    Peter Sellers...

    

    Spike Milligan...
14. Will the Real Mr. Sellers... (1969) (Movie) (2)
    

    Peter Sellers...Subject Of Portrait

    

    Spike Milligan...Narrator