- BFI identifier109741
- Date1983 (Copyright)
1983-06-24 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisCollection of satirical sketches on life, including: Medicine, The Church, The Military, Big Business, Sex and Sex Education etc. (Synopsis)
- Work historyAccompanied by short film 'The Crimson Permanent Assurance'. Monty Python's fourth film, after And Now for Something Completely Different, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Life of Brian could have been Monty Python's World War 3, announced in the British trades in early 1980. It was never made and the team made The Meaning of Life instead.
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Monty Python's the Meaning of Life (Original)
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