Manufacturer: 2 Entertain VideoStarring: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Ballard Berkeley
And Now for Something Completely Different, Monty Python's first feature, is a reworking of their best skits from the first two seasons of the TV series. Originally made for the US market (where the show had yet to be aired), it was shot on film outside the usual studio sets ("Nudge Nudge", for example, is set in a tavern filled with passers-by). The writing and performances are fine and ...
Manufacturer: 4 Front VideoStarring: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric IdleDirected By: Ian MacNaughton
Manufacturer: Pathe DistributionStarring: Steve Coogan, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Antony Sher, Nicol WilliamsonDirected By: Terry Jones
This 1988 comedy starred and was scripted by John Cleese and directed by Charles Crichton, veteran Ealing Comedy director. After 1986's Clockwise--in which he played a manic loser similar to Basil Fawlty--A Fish Called Wanda saw Cleese opting for a more sympathetic lead role. Cleese plays Archie Leach (Cary Grant's real name), a barrister living a typically English life of quiet ...
Manufacturer: MGM EntertainmentStarring: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Maria AitkenDirected By: John Cleese, Charles Crichton
Could this be the funniest movie ever made? By any rational measure of comedy, this medieval romp from the Monty Python troupe certainly belongs on the short list of candidates. According to Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide, it's "recommended for fans only," but we say hogwash to that--you could be a complete newcomer to the Python phenomenon and still find this send-up of the Arthurian ...
Manufacturer: Uca CatalogueStarring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry JonesDirected By: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Let's be honest: this should be titled Wretched Excess' Frankenstein. Swooping, wild, bloody, and energetic, this is bad moviemaking from the best, which makes it all the more loveable. Kenneth Branagh plays Victor Frankenstein, a man so obsessed with conquering death that he decides to create life. What he gets, after a protoplasmic mud wrestle, is a Mean Streets monster (Robert De Niro) ...
Manufacturer: 4 Front VideoStarring: Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham-Carter, Aidan QuinnDirected By: Kenneth Branagh
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Jack Palance, Howard McGillin, Michelle Nicastro, John Cleese, Steven WrightDirected By: Richard Rich
