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Michael Palin
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Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Michael Palin
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Palin follows in the footsteps of author Ernest Hemingway, offering insights into the quirky, eccentric and less well-known areas of Hemingway's life.
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Michael Palin's Great Railway Journeys
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Michael Palin
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Includes both his 1980 and 1994 railway journeys. In the first, Michael travels the length of Britain by train. In the second, he travels Ireland whilst tracing the 'family line' of his great grandmother
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61%
from 2,368 members
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Spike Milligan - I Told You I Was Ill
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Harry Enfield, Eddie Izzard, Terry Jones
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It's a mystery how a man who called Prince Charles a 'groveling little bastard' on live TV would somehow end up on the Prince's list of favorite comedians, but that was the beauty of Spike Milligan. When the man Eddie Izzard called the founder of modern comedy died in 2002, he was mourned the world ..read more »
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from 462 members
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Around The World In 80 Days
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Michael Palin
Director: Roger Mills, Clem Vallance
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Witty intrepid traveller Michael Palin attempts to recreate the fictional voyage of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg. Not only that, he accepts the challenge to use only those modes of transportation that would have been available to Fogg. He encounters many strange and unexpected things while racing ..read more »
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Michael Palin - Sahara
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Michael Palin
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There is no easy way to cross the Sahara by land and Michael Palin encounters the same problems and difficulties faced by travellers for centuries.
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73%
from 2,217 members
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BBC Great Comedy Moments
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: David Jason, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett
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This compilation DVD brings together nearly two hours of the funniest comedy scenes from the many classic BBC programmes. Includes clips from the likes of Blackadder, Morecambe and Wise, Only Fools And Horses, Porridge, Some Mother's Do 'Ave 'Em, Steptoe and Son and more.
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62%
from 476 members
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Fierce Creatures
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline
Director: Robert Young, Fred Schepisi
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This reunion of the cast of A FISH CALLED WANDA is not a sequel, but features the trademark humor of John Cleese, Kevin Kline, and Jamie Lee Curtis, including Kline's genius double performance as an aging media mogul and his buffoon of a son. A riotous and scatterbrained story of frantic English ..read more »
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from 4,117 members
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Full Circle With Michael Palin
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Michael Palin
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Travel 50,000 miles around the Pacific Rim with Michael Palin. His entertaining wit and incredible capacity to experience the unknown, guides you FULL CIRCLE around the globe along the Pacific rim from Alaska, through Russia, Japan, China, Vietnam, Australia, South America and Mexico. But these ..read more »
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from 2,638 members
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The Wind In The Willows
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Terry Jones, Steve Coogan, Eric Idle
Director: Terry Jones
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A live-action version of the classic story by Kenneth Grahame, featuring several members of the Monty Python comedy team. Toad of Toad Hall (director Terry Jones) is a whimsical fellow who is apprehended for driving too fast in his motorcar. The next thing he knows, a gang of weasels is trying to ..read more »
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59%
from 399 members
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Pole To Pole With Michael Palin
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Michael Palin
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Join Monty Python's Michael Palin on his second globetrotting adventure from Pole to Pole. Travelling from the North to the South Poles using only land and sea transport, he dodges polar bears, consults with doctors, and watches his luggage melt in the African sun.
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74%
from 2,304 members
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Secret Policeman's Ball, The - The Compl...
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: John Cleese, Neil Innes, terry jones
Director: Roger Graef
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A box set featuring all the Secret Policeman's Balls. 'Pleasure At Her Majesty's (1976)', 'Mermaid Frolics (1977)', 'The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979)', 'The Secret Policeman's Other Ball (1981)', 'The Secret Policeman's Third Ball (1987)', and 'The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball (1989)
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64%
from 137 members
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A Fish Called Wanda
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Kevin Kline
Director: Charles Crichton
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In A FISH CALLED WANDA, veteran director Charles Crichton and scriptwriter-star John Cleese create a dazzling quilt from various strands of English and American comedy. The plot, in which four disparate characters attempt a daring heist, comes from Ealing caper comedies, such as Crichton's own THE ..read more »
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68%
from 20,996 members
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Brazil
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond
Director: Terry Gilliam
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BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. The film, cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered Sam Lowry (an ..read more »
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68%
from 15,829 members
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A Private Function
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott
Director: Malcolm Mowbray
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This satiric British comedy follows the efforts of a small community to fatten a pig during the time following the Second World War when ham was contraband due to short supplies. Michael Palin and Maggie Smith star.
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The Missionary
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard
Director: Richard Loncraine
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In this low-key comedy, a missionary (Michael Palin) who is trying to save the souls of prostitutes admits an ever increasing number of them into his "private fold." Soon the priest's "mission" looks more like a brothel. The cast includes Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard, Denholm Elliott, and many other ..read more »
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from 521 members
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Time Bandits
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Plunging headfirst into history, director Terry Gilliam fearlessly brings the logic of children's fairy tales to bear as he navigates through myth and legend in a bizarre, ingenious retelling of THE WIZARD OF OZ. A boy and six good-natured little persons careen through time-twisting interactions ..read more »
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from 10,788 members
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Time Bandits - BLU-RAY Version
(1980)
Starring: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Born from the brilliant minds of Monty Python's Terry Gilliam and
Michael Palin, Time Bandits is a British masterstroke in fantasy
adventure. When a young boy's wardrobe shapeshifts into the gateway of
another world, he finds himself embroiled in a series of eccentric
encounters with famous ..read more »
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71%
from 103 members
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The Complete Ripping Yarns
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Michael Palin, Eric Orthwaite
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The complete series from the pens of Michael Palin and Terry Jones.
Episode titles: Tomkinson's Schooldays, The Testing of Eric Olthwaite, Escape From Stalag Luft 112 B, Murder at Moorstones Manor, Across the Andes by Frog, The Curse of the Claw, Whinfrey's Last Case, Golden Gordon, Roger of the Raj.
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70%
from 2,676 members
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Monty Python's Life Of Brian
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam
Director: Terry Jones
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Monty Python delivers a scathing, anarchic satire of both religion and Hollywood's depiction of all things biblical with their second--and tightest--full-length film. The setting is the Holy Land in 33 A.D., a time of poverty and chaos, with no shortage of messiahs, followers willing to believe in ..read more »
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78%
from 53,213 members
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Rutles, The - All You Need Is Cash
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Eric Idle, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd
Director: Gary Weis, Eric Idle
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THE RUTLES is a hilarious send-up of the myth and reality--mostly the myth--of the Beatles. Created by Monty Python's Eric Idle and produced by SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE creator Lorne Michaels, this mockumentary contains cameos from Mick Jagger, Paul Simon, Ron Wood, Bill Murray, and even one of the ..read more »
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63%
from 1,058 member
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Jabberwocky
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Michael Palin, Harry H. Corbett, John Le Mesurier
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Opening with a quote from Lewis Carroll's classic nonsensical poem, Terry Gilliam's JABBERWOCKY is a darkly comic medieval masterpiece about a monster wreaking havoc on helpless villages. Michael Palin stars as Dennis Cooper, a happy-go-lucky ne'er-do-well stock taker who becomes the unlikely hero ..read more »
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61%
from 2,684 members
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Three Men In A Boat
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Tim Curry, Michael Palin, Stephen Moore
Director: Stephen Frears
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Popular from the very start and never out of print, Three Men in a Boat remains as fresh and funny today as when it was first published in 1889. This adaptation is by a modern master of comedy, playwright Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, The Russia House, Empire of the Sun, Rosencrantz and ..read more »
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from 62 members
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How To Irritate People
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman
Director: Ian Fordyce
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HOW TO IRRITATE PEOPLE is a mockumentary in which host John Cleese illustrates various different types of irritation, and shows that the best way to irritate people is to make it look unintentional. Parents irritate their children, old ladies irritate people in a movie theater, and airline pilots ..read more »
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from 808 members
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Monty Python's Personal Bests Collection
(6 discs)
on DVD
Starring: John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman
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John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Terry Jones of the groundbreaking comedy act Monty Python choose their favourite sketches from the show and collaborate to choose Graham Chapman's finest sketches.
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74%
from 365 members
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Monty Python's Flying Circus - Series 1
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman
Director: John Howard Davies, Ian MacNaughton
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Contains all the episodes from the first series of the classic and highly influential television comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus. Consisting of British actors Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and American Terry Gilliam, the hugely influential comedy ..read more »
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Michael Palin's New Europe
(3 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Michael Palin
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Michael Palin starts his journey high in the Julian Alps on the border between Slovenia and Italy, where the Iron Curtain once ran. Travelling through the Balkans, the Black Sea and the Baltic States, he explores countries which may be newly formed but have rich and deep histories. In Poland, ..read more »
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74%
from 496 members
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Palin On Art
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Michael Palin
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Wilhelm Hammershoi, Anne Redpath and the four men known as the Scottish Colourists share one thing. None is as well-known as they deserve to be. What drew me to them all was my admiration and delight in their superb control of colour and their ability to use it to create a dazzling array of moods. ..read more »
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69%
from 28 members
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G.B.H.
(4 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Robert Lindsay, Michael Palin, Julie Walters
Director: Robert Young
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Alan Bleasdale’s GBH is an epic, darkly humorous story of power, corruption and madness played out in the conflict between the enigmatic politician, Michael Murray (Robert Lindsay) and his nemesis, schoolteacher Jim Nelson (Michael Palin). Nelson accidentally defies a Murray-inspired 24-hour strike ..read more »
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70%
from 1,612 member
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Michael Palin facts
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Travel the sands 6 August 2004
...Like the other entire travel documentaries Michael Palin has made, this series I found very enjoyable as he blends light humour with the excitement of exploring this planet ...
Life of Brian 16 April 2004
