And Now For Something Completely Different


1h 28m 1974

Brief Synopsis

This first feature by the Monty Python troup is a kind of greatest hits album with some of the most popular sketches and animated bus from their long-running television series.

Film Details

Also Known As
La Premiere folie des Monty Python, Livet é Python, Premiere folie des Monty Python, La
MPAA Rating
Genre
Comedy
Release Date
1974
Distribution Company
Sony Pictures Releasing

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 28m
Sound
Mono
Color
Color (Eastmancolor)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1, 1.66 : 1

Synopsis

A collection of re-filmed sketches from the first and second series of the cult TV comedy show "Monty Python's Flying Circus". Includes such classics as "Nudge, Nudge", "Hell's Grannies", "Killer Cars", "Dead Parrot", "Lumberjack Song", "Blackmail" and "Upper Class Twit of the Year".

Film Details

Also Known As
La Premiere folie des Monty Python, Livet é Python, Premiere folie des Monty Python, La
MPAA Rating
Genre
Comedy
Release Date
1974
Distribution Company
Sony Pictures Releasing

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 28m
Sound
Mono
Color
Color (Eastmancolor)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1, 1.66 : 1

Quotes

Look, I took the liberty of examining that parrot when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.
- Customer
Well, o'course it was nailed there! If I hadn't nailed that bird down, it would have nuzzled up to those bars, bent 'em apart with its beak, and VOOM! Feeweeweewee!
- Owner
"VOOM"?!? Mate, this bird wouldn't "voom" if you put four million volts through it! 'E's bleedin' demised!
- Customer
No no! 'E's pining!
- Owner
'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!
- Customer
I will not buy this record, it is scratched.
- Hungarian
What?
- Tobacconist
I will not buy this record, it is scratched.
- Hungarian
No, no, this is a tobacconist.
- Tobacconist
Ah! I will not buy this tobacconist, *it* is scratched!
- Hungarian
Now, I would just like to point out that this film is displaying a distinct tendency to become SILLY. Now, nobody likes a good laugh more than I do... except, perhaps my wife... and some of her friends. Oh, yes, and Captain Johnson. Come to think of it, most people like a good laugh more than I do, but that's beside the point! I'm warning this film NOT to get SILLY again! Right!
- Sergeant-Major
Right! Stop that! It's SILLY. Very SILLY indeed! Started off as a nice little idea about old ladies attacking young men, but now it's just got SILLY! His hair's too long for a vicar, too, and you can tell those are not proper keep-left signs! CLEAR OUT, THE LOT OF YOU!
- Sergeant-Major
You bastards! You vicious, heartless bastards! Look what you've done to him! He's worked his fingers to the bone to make this place what it is, and you come in with your petty feeble quibbling and you grind him into the dirt, this fine, honorable man, whose boots you are not worthy to kiss! Oh... it makes me mad...
- Mungo the Cook
Mad! Stark, stirring... MAD!
- Mungo the Cook

Trivia

Shot between the first and second seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus, this film contains several sketches that had been written for the second season but not yet performed, including the "Hungarian Phrasebook" sketch.

The sets for this film were built in an abandoned dairy rather than on a (more costly) soundstage.

Miscellaneous Notes

Released in United States 1974

First film appearance of BBC's Monty Python troupe.

Re-released in Paris July 18, 1990.

Released in United States 1974 (Shown at FILMEX: Los Angeles International Film Exposition March 28 - April 9, 1974)