Monty Python Film Location: I have visited all the Monty Python Film Locations by myself or with a buddy. All photos are taken with my camera or phone camera. Work on this page will begin later this autumn. I hope you understand my not so perfect English? Not an expert on it either in text or speech.
My pilgrimage in Monty Python's footsteps.
Monty Python's Castle Aaargh in the movie, Holy Grail or as its real name is, Castle Stalker. Location: Appin,Argyl and Bute. More information to come. But I really recommend a visit.Coordinates Google Maps: 56.571533, -5.386232 . Photo,Kent-Mikael Edoff. Castle Stalker's Homepage : Castle Stalker | castle stalker, Appin, Argyll
Arthur(Graham Chapman): In the name of our lord,we demand entrance to the Sacred Castle.
Frog(John Cleese): No chance,English bed-wetting types.We burst our pimples at you,and call your door-opening request a silly thing.You tiny-brained wiper of other people´s bottoms.
Photos from top left.1. Castle Aaargh or as it is called, Castle Stalker. 2.Same.3.I am standing in the exact same place as John Cleese when he along with some jacks (one is one of the owners of the castle) taunts King Arthur (Graham Chapman) and Patsy (Terry Gilliam) standing below. Frog: Ha Ha! Hello! Smelly English K....niggets....and Monsieur Arthur King,who has the brain of a duck,you know! 4.Me going down the same stairs as King Arthur and Patsy after they were further taunted by the "French" in this case John Cleese. King Arthur to Patsy as they go downstairs, Walk away.Just ignore him.
Monty Python´s Castle Anthrax or Swamp Castle in the movie, Holy Grail or the real name, Doune Castle. The castle is as the name says in Doune in the Stirling council area.8 miles,13 kilometers northwest of Stirling.Coordinates Google Maps: 56.185165, -4.050033 . More information to come. But I can really recommend a visit.Photo:Kent-Mikael Edoff.For more information, visit this website: Doune Castle: Prices and Opening Times | Historic Enviro
Photos from the top left: 1. I'm standing in front of Monty Python's, Castle Anthrax or Swamp Castle or as its real name is, Doune Castle. 2. I'm sitting inside Doune Castle and waiting for: Hundred-and-fifty, eight score young blondes and brunettes, all between sixteen and nineteen-and-a-half are to come.3. If you use your imagination, you can see Private Sir Michael Palin standing up there with Private John Cleese to his right arguing with King Arthur (Graham Chapman) and Patsy (Terry Gilliam) are standing below the wall.4. Father:One day,lad,all this will be yours....Prince:What-the curtains?
Monty Python's Cave of Cearbannog in the movie, Holy Grail or as it is actually called. Tomnadashan mine.Tomnadashan Mine is located on the south side of Loch Tay, immediately south of the road beside the loch, 2km south-west of Ardtalnaig.Really recommend all Monty Python Fans to visit the Cave Of Cearbannog. An experience. Even the beautiful surroundings are an experience.Photo:Kent-Mikael Edoff . Do you want to see more about what the area looks like? Visit this link for Sam Hayles 4K drone footage of Cave Of Cearbannog and Loch Tay. Beautifully.
Loch Tay and Tomnadashan Mine - Scotland. 4K Drone footage. (youtube.com)
Coordinates Google Maps: 56.514282,-4.127921 .
Photo: From upper left. Cave Of Cearbannog or as it is actually called. Tomnadashan mine. Tim The Enchanter : There he is! The place where Tim the Enchanter warned the knights about :A creature so foul and cruel that no man yet has foughtwith it and lived. Me on the left and a nice man from Georgia, USA on the right who visited Cave Of Cearbannog with his wife at the same time as two Swedes. Me and a friend in front of Cave Of Cearbannog aka Tomnadashan mine. The photo with the "stone pile" is the location of the scene where ,The Old Blind Man (Terry Gilliam) says to Arthur, (Graham Chapman): ...Hee ha ha ha. He knows of a cave, a cave which no man has entered. It is just to the right of the Cace Of Cearbannog .Last photo, me on my way down from the Cave of Caerbannog. Beautiful surroundings with Loch Tay in the background. (sorry for the poor sharpness of that photo) .First four photos in 2018. Last in 2017.
Monty Python Film Location.Bracklinn Falls, Callander The scene: Message for you, sir. In the film Monty Python's Holy Grail. And some exterior scenes of King Arthur and his knights trotting.The exact location is not visible anymore, due to a flood in 2004. But it is within a few meters of where I am standing.
Photo . From top left. I have tried to work out with the film and photos a possible exact location of where Eric Idle lay with the arrow in his chest after several visits to this location. The most likely location is just to the right of me in the first photo. If you cross the bridge, there is a path there. Now it has grown a lot more since the filming. But if you want to go after the background in the film? So behind the trees it looks like in the movie. Further up there is not that back round. Second photo, me and someone who liked Monty Python from Illinois, USA. The picture with Lancelot (John Cleese) and Concorde (Sir Lancelot's trusty steed). Is a Monty Python postcard collectible item in my collection. Most likely location, on the right in the last photo. Within a few meters.
Monty Python Film Location. The Bridge Of Death and The Gorge of Eternal Peril scenes. Filmed in Pass of Glen Coe, Glen Coe, Scotland. On my 67th birthday in 2024, I managed to get up to the place where they built "The Bridge Of Death" and filmed that scene. It wasn't the first attempt. But when there was far too much water in the river, which made it impossible to wade across, I had to give up. But in 2024 I succeeded.More information below the photo.
Bridgekeeper(Terry Gilliam) :Who approacheth the Bridge of Death,,must answer me ,,These questions three,,Ere the other side he see!
Top from the left. I stand in the place where Brideekeper stands (Terry Gilliam). Top right. The exact location of The Bridge Of Death. There is a greater distance between the sides than the photo shows. Left. behind me .behind this hill to the right of me. The camera crew stood and filmed.I was so tired, so I couldn't walk around and stand in that place. Photo No. 4 shows a little better the place where they stood and watched the Bridgekeeper. Sorry for bad camera angle. Photo No. 5 we see again the exact location of The Bridge of death, closest to me. Left at the bottom. Across the street at the right white house, is the place where I took the photo where I marked the location for The Bridge Of Death.Last photo on the right bottom. It is also there you have to go down to get to the movie set, The Bridge Of Death. I will later post a video on how to get there, plus additional videos on other posts.
Monty Python Film Location. "Burn The Witch" . For many years I wondered where this place was. No matter how much I searched, I couldn't find any information about it. But, I was lucky enough to get to know a Scotsman from Doune. When I visited Scotland in 2024, he was kind enough to show me several places where Monty Python filmed various scenes in the film Holy Grail. Since several people from Doune were in the film as extras, he had a lot to tell me about the Python gang when they filmed in Doune. Many thanks to Kenny Lauder for your kindness in showing me around the Monty Python filming locations. Burn The Witch was filmed just outside Doune. The place is called: The Manse at Old Kilmadock. Unfortunately, everything is demolished, only a pile of stones remains. But in old photos you can actually see where they filmed the scene. Burn The Witch.
A witch! A witch! A witch! A witch! We've found a witch! A witch! A witch! A witch! A witch! We've got a witch! A witch! A witch! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! We've found a witch! We've found a witch! A witch! A witch! A witch!
Top left: Image from the film. Top Right : A photo of The Manse at Old Kilmadoch before it was demolished. If you look at that picture from the film. Then look at the photo. You can see that on the far left of the building is the small building that is seen in the picture from the film, where a person is standing in the window. That's where the scene was shot at the back of the house.
Photo middle left: The Scotsman who showed me this place. Thanks to Kenny Lauder from Doune.
Photo Middle Right: Photo of the remains of The Manse at Old Kilmadock.
Photo bottom right: I received a brochure about Old Kilmadock from Kenny. It contained a lot of facts about the history of the place. From it I copied what describes when Monty Python filmed there.
Photo bottom left: A very tired but happy Monty Python fan at The Manse at Old Kilmadock.
Ohh! Ohh! Burn the witch! Burn the witch! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! Ahh! Ahh.
Monty Python Film Location. "Bring Out Your Dead" .