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Monty Python (sometimes known as The Pythons) was a British surreal comedy group who created Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series. The Python phenomenon developed from the television series into something larger in scope and impact, spawning touring stage shows, films, numerous albums, several books and a stage musical as well as launching the members to individual stardom. The group's influence on comedy has been compared to The Beatles' influence on music.
The television series, broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974, was conceived, written and performed by members Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. Loosely structured as a sketch show, but with an innovative stream-of-consciousness approach (aided by Gilliam's animation), it pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable in style and content. A self-contained comedy team responsible for both writing and performing their work, the Pythons' creative control allowed them to experiment with form and content, discarding rules of television comedy. Their influence on British comedy has been apparent for years, while in North America it has coloured the work of cult performers from the early editions of Saturday Night Live through to more recent absurdist trends in television comedy. "Pythonesque" has entered the English lexicon as a result.
Actors: Emily Watson (actress), Jeremy Akerman (actor), Lynn Josephson Delaney (miscellaneous crew), Dermot Mulroney (actor), Howard Braunstein (producer), Michael Jaffe (producer), Brian Heighton (actor), Daniel Licht (composer), Amanda Mason (miscellaneous crew), Gretchen Mol (actress), Rob Stewart (actor), John Pielmeier (writer), Mick Jackson (director), Phil Hatcher (miscellaneous crew), Debra Hanson (costume designer),
Plot: On a snowy winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry rushes his pregnant wife Norah to the hospital, where, with help from her husband and nurse Caroline Gill, she delivers their son Paul. However, Dr. Henry discovers that his wife was carrying twins, and helps her deliver the second child, a baby girl named Phoebe. Shortly after Phoebe's birth, he finds that she has Down Syndrome, and hands her over to Nurse Caroline, explaining that the death of his ill sister nearly destroyed their mother and he doesn't want Norah to go through that. Instead, he instructs Caroline to take Phoebe to a nearby institution for the mentally ill, figuring the child won't live much longer, and tells Norah that Phoebe was a stillborn. However, after visiting the institution and seeing the state of the other patients, Caroline takes the baby home with her, stopping along the way to buy formula and diapers. With help from a truck driver named Al, Caroline begins to raise the baby as her own, while Dr. Henry develops an obsession for photography after his wife gives him the gift of a Memory Keeper camera.
Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, affair, art-show, based-on-novel, beach, broken-arm, camera, childbirthActors: Barry Flatman (actor), Joe Cappelletti (miscellaneous crew), Philip Akin (actor), Joseph Lawrence (actor), Joel S. Rice (producer), Marilu Henner (actress), Winnifred Jong (miscellaneous crew), Corinne Conley (actress), Alex Kavanagh (costume designer), Jeff Pustil (actor), Kathleen Laskey (actress), Kevin Lafferty (producer), Sergio Di Zio (actor), Juan Aguirre (miscellaneous crew), Adam MacDonald (actor),
Plot: When Kelly and Michael decide to get married, they want to have an off-beat wedding without all the traditional glitz. But when their friends and Kelly's mother introduce them to the rules of engagement, a simple, intimate wedding becomes a huge production.
Genres: Romance,Actors: Gulzar (writer), A.K. Hangal (actor), Shashi Kapoor (actor), Kulbhushan Kharbanda (actor), Om Puri (actor), Sharmila Tagore (actress), Renu Saluja (editor), Manohar Singh (actor), Louis Banks (composer), Ram Gopal Bajaj (actor), M.K. Raina (actor), Hilla Sethna (miscellaneous crew), K. Bikram Singh (producer), Ramesh Sharma (director),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Jacques François (actor), Robert Favart (actor), Edward Fox (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Van Doude (actor), Terence Alexander (actor), Féodor Atkine (actor), Jacques Alric (actor), Gérard Buhr (actor), Michel Auclair (actor), Bernard Archard (actor), Jean Champion (actor), Cyril Cusack (actor), Maurice Denham (actor), Raymond Gérôme (actor),
Plot: It is the early 60s in France. The remaining survivors of the aborted French Foreign Legion have made repeated attempts to kill DeGaulle. The result is that he is the most closely guarded man in the world. As a desperate act, they hire The Jackal, the code name for a hired killer who agrees to kill French President De Gaulle for half a million dollars. We watch his preparations which are so thorough we wonder how he could possibly fail even as we watch the French police attempt to pick up his trail. The situation is historically accurate. There were many such attempts and the film closely follows the plot of the book.
Keywords: 1960s, affair, animal-in-title, armed-robbery, assassin, assassination, assassination-attempt, assassination-plot, assumed-identity, bare-breastsActors: Erville Alderson (actor), Burr McIntosh (actor), Antonio Moreno (actor), Cyril Ring (actor), Henry Sedley (actor), Bebe Daniels (actress), Ida Darling (actress), Sonya Levien (writer), Adolph Zukor (miscellaneous crew), Bigelow Cooper (actor), Diana Allen (actress), John Colton (writer), Jane Thomas (actress), Tom Blake (actor), Maurice Campbell (director),
Genres: Romance,Actors: Siegmund Lubin (producer), Clay M. Greene (director), Anthony Paul Kelly (writer), Francis Joyner (actor), Arthur Matthews (actor), Helen Greene (actress), Leslie Austin (actor), James Cassady (actor), Hollins Antrim (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Tom Ricketts (director), Edward Coxen (actor), George Field (actor), James Harrison (actor), Chester Withey (actor), Charlotte Burton (actress), Edward Gordon (writer), R.D. Armstrong (actor),
Plot: Ione, a Spanish girl, is deemed and recognized among her circle of friends as a heartless flirt. One afternoon, while seated at the edge of a pond in her father's garden, she is startled by the reflection of a face in the water. It is the face of "Bandit Bob" in the woods, where she has just experienced the satisfaction of crushing another heart thrown at her feet. He displays the primitive instinct by carrying her off to his home on the hill, and there making her his wife, while she is still bewildered at having found a personality which expected submission instead of submitting. Later a love-making scene follows, and the story closes with the sheriff and "Bandit Bob" at peace and the little cabin blessed with a baby.
Genres: Short, Western,Actors: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (actor), Charles Avery (actor), Billy Gilbert (actor), William Hauber (actor), Charles Inslee (actor), Edgar Kennedy (actor), Hank Mann (actor), Rube Miller (actor), Emma Bell Clifton (actress), Minta Durfee (actress), Virginia Kirtley (actress), Peggy Pearce (actress), Mack Sennett (producer), Wilfred Lucas (director),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: King Baggot (actor), Carl Laemmle (producer), June Gail (actress), Ruth Baggot (writer),
Plot: King Baggot plays a young minister with socialistic tendencies which are not liked by the elders of the church. He is very popular with the younger set. A poor young woman of the town is deserted by her unprincipled husband who destroys all record of their marriage. Their child soon dies and the minister calls to console the mother. Her reputation is considered shady by the townspeople. She starts to leave town, but falls exhausted outside the minister's home. He takes her in and gives her a home with himself and his mother. The elders object to this and the minister resigns. He takes up mission work in the slums and the woman goes with him. One night her husband returns drunk and shabby. He tries to rob a saloon and is pursued by saloonkeeper and police. He takes refuge in the mission. The minister persuades the pursuers to leave the man with him. The husband and wife meet, but she will have nothing to do with him. He makes a scene and accuses the minister of being in love with his wife. He then goes out into the storm and is killed by lightning. The new minister at the church proves unsatisfactory. The elders send for their old minister. He returns to his church on condition that they sanction his marriage to the woman he has helped.
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Harry Myers (actor), Peter Lang (actor), Richard Morris (actor), Siegmund Lubin (producer), Mrs. George W. Walters (actress), Charles Arthur (actor), May Buckley (actress),
Genres: Drama, Short,Now there's no one left to vote for
And there's very rarely been
No more voices of the people
G (F#) Em
Who are not of the machine
And the giant public monster
Gathering summer's silent scream
Swearing blind he's not been seen
Hiding bones that everyone sees
[Chorus]:
And everybody knows
That everybody goes
G (F#) Em D
In - Sa - ne
The revolution's always over
The apocalypse is now
All hands are on the keyboard
Hardly any on the plough
The new government's the old one
Same old handbags at the helm
Lapsing back into religion
Letting voices overwhelm
[Chorus]
It got crazy on the frontline
Manning barricades to wait
On the motherboards of freedom
For the hordes of solid state
Long before the menu
Was having problems with the date
And the mice became the men
Far too late
[Chorus]
Now my church is in the dungeon
Down the fourteenth corridor
Virtual guards surround me
With electronic walls
We're at the level of playstation
Where the rich become the poor
On their bended knees they're praying
For more, so much more . .
[Chorus]
No there's no one left to vote for
Only fools to vote against
The refugees have all surrended
The perimeter's been fenced
Six billion dreamers are all banged up
By the screment of dough
And the new religion
of the W.T.O
[Chorus]
I have given up the memory
Of my years of dreaming on
To be as silent as I'm angry
About this trip through babylon
I feel the building of the final
Psyche of the snake
Make a killig every lunchtime
Sleep it off until I wake