Monty Python's Life of Brian December 1976, with a first draft completed by mid-1977. The final pre-production draft was ready in January 1978, following "a concentrated two-week writing and water-skiing period in Barbados". The film would not have been made without Python fan former Beatle George Harrison, who set up HandMade Films to help fund it at a cost of £3 million. Harrison put up the money for it as he "wanted to see the movie" — later described by Terry Jones as the "world's most expensive cinema ticket." The original backers, EMI Films, had been scared off at the last minute by the subject
Galahad and the Holy Grail Galahad and the Holy Grail Galahad and the Holy Grail is an action-adventure game for the Atari 8-bit family designed and programmed by Douglas Crockford and published by the Atari Program Exchange in 1982. It contains almost 100 rooms—according to the manual—which are switched between with a flip screen technique. The game caused Chris Crawford to hire Crockford at Atari, Inc. The design was heavily influenced by "Adventure" for the Atari 2600 and contains references to it as well as other popular games of the day. With a nod to the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", one of