Monty Python design. The film was shot on location in Tunisia, the finances being provided this time by former Beatle George Harrison, who together with Denis O'Brien formed the production company Hand-Made Films for the movie. Harrison had a cameo role as the "owner of the Mount". Despite its subject matter attracting controversy, particularly upon its initial release, it has (together with its predecessor) been ranked among the greatest comedy films. A Channel 4 poll in 2005 ranked "Holy Grail" in sixth place, with "Life of Brian" at the top. Filmed at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles during preparations for "The
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life Monty Python just 90 minutes to screw it up" (the length of "The Meaning of Life" proper is 90 minutes, but becomes 107 minutes as released with the "Short Subject Presentation", "The Crimson Permanent Assurance"). In an April 2012 re-release held by the American Film Institute, the tagline is altered to read "It took God six days to create the Heavens and the Earth, and Monty Python just 1 hour and 48 minutes to screw it up". Ireland banned the film on its original release as it had previously done with "Monty Python's Life of Brian", but later rated it