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'We get all kinds of people who come because of the film,' he says. Mr Caldwell was not a Python aficionado when he started work at the castle four seasons ago, but now he is quite an authority and can refer to the screenplay if anyone gets stuck (the script is also stocked in the castle shop). The team found a source in the US, imported 500 sets and have drilled them so they are ready to use. There will be enough coconuts to go round.

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So this year's participants will be treated to a group of professional actors recreating famous scenes, plus a giant-screen presentation of the film, and a singalong in the castle courtyard. We didn't get any negative feedback on the day, but if you are staging this as a regular event there is an expectation that you are going to raise the bar.' 'It was the 30th anniversary of the film being shot there and we had 1,400 people turning up, and it was fantastic and nuts at the same time. 'Last year was mad,' said Nick Finnegan, Historic Scotland events manager. Numbers have had to be limited to 500, however, after problems last year shepherding so many fans around such a confined space. The event was so successful that it is being repeated on September 4. Last year, Historic Scotland bowed to the inevitable and staged Doune's first ever Monty Python Day, an event that attracted about 1,500 fans from all over the UK, and some from overseas, including a hen party from New York. Mr Caldwell estimates that they account for up to third of the 25,000 visitors each year. Python fans have been visiting Doune since the film was made in the early 1970s. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries.' Visitors also climb to the ramparts to recreate famous scenes - a particular favourite being John Cleese's quite extraordinarily rude Frenchman declaiming: 'I fart in your general direction. They use the shells to mimic horses, as King Arthur and his faithful servant, Patsy, did in the film's opening scene. Coconut shells have been a fixture behind the castle reception desk for a number of years, props for the legions of Monty Python fans who visit Doune, a key location for the film Monty Python And The Holy Grail.

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