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And Now for Something Completely Different
A collection of Monty Python's Flying Circus skits from the first two seasons of their British TV series.
1971 · Directed by Ian MacNaughton · 88 min · Comedy · 15 frames
Tagline
If the Motion Picture Industry dies… Monty Python killed it!
Crew
- Screenplay: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle
- Cinematography: David Muir
- Edited by: Thom Noble
- Music: Douglas Gamley
- Produced by: Patricia Casey
Cast
- Graham Chapman as Brother / Policeman / Defence attorney / British pedestrian / Mr. Harrison (Apricot) / The Colonel / 'Hell's Grannies' policeman / Jimmy Blankensop / Sir Edward Ross / Restaurant patron #1 / Letter Writer / Oliver St. John Mollusk / Mountie / Town Guild Lady
- John Cleese as Announcer / Hungarian Citizen / self - Defence Teacher / Sir George Head / Policeman / Interviewer / Mr. Praline / Second General / Christopher Columbus / Mungo the Cook / Bank Robber / Accountant #2 (falling past the window) / Vocational Guidance Counselor / Vivian Smith Smythe Smith / Mountie / Town Guild Lady
- Terry Gilliam as Self-Defence Nun / Flasher / Uncle Sam / Caterpillar Man / Sign Holder / Conrad Poohs
- Eric Idle as Prosecutor / Marriage Counselor / Arthur Nudge / Self-defence student #4 (interested in pointed sticks) / 'Hell's Grannies' analyst / Arthur Wilson / Arthur Wilson Two / Nightclub Emcee / Linkman / First General / Restaurant Manager / Lingerie Shop Owner / Accountant #1 (falling past the window) / Fairy Godmother / Rita Fairbanks / Simon Zinc Trumpet Harris / Mountie / Lady With Cookbook
- Terry Jones as Stage Manager / Tobacconist / 2nd Hungarian Man / Squire / Self-defence student #3 / Tenant #1 / Flasher / Mouse Organist Ken Ewing / Fat Soldier / Waiter / Nude Organist / Brian / Nigel Incubator Jones
- Michael Palin as Gumby / Man with tape recorder / Phrasebook Author / Arthur Pewtey / Second self - defence student / Second Tenant / Lost His Wallet / Shrill Petrol Announcer / Milkman / Ernest Scribbler / Pet shop employee / Lumberjack / Headwaiter Gilberto / Herbert Anchovy / Blackmail Presenter / Gervais Brookhamster / Town Guild Lady
- Carol Cleveland as Dierdre Pewtey / Storyteller / Milkman Collector / Restaurant Patron #2 / Elsbeth
- Connie Booth as Best Girl
- Lesley Judd as Distraught Mother
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Kettledrum Films, Python (Monty) Pictures, Playboy Enterprises
- Budget: $100,000
- Box office: $7,000
- Themes: blackmail, stupidity, spoof, compilation, lumberjack, sketch comedy, dead parrot, twit, intentional mistranslation, foot race
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