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Summary
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.
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Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 44GoodWatch 48
IMDb4.7
Audience score40%
Running time
1 h 25 min
Shorter than most comedies, −15 min on the typical 100
typical 10085Half of all comedies run 91–111 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country, rent or buy in 1 more
Released
1975
January 23, 1975
51 years ago
Genre
ComedyLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
United Kingdom
and 1 moreDirecting · 1
- Joseph McGrath Director, Screenplay
Writing · 1
- Spike Milligan Screenplay
Production · 3
- Peter Lamb Executive Producer
- Kamal Pasha Executive Producer
- David Hamilton-Grant Producer
Editing · 1
- Rusty Coppleman Editor
Sound · 2
- John Shakespeare Music
- Derek Warne Music
Other crew · 1
- John Mackey Photoscience Manager
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