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| Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl | |
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| Produced by | Terry Hughes |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures (United States) HandMade Films (United Kingdom)[1] |
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Running time | 80 minutes[1] |
| Countries | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $327,958[2] |
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl is a 1982 concert comedy film directed by Terry Hughes (with the film segments by Ian MacNaughton) and starring the Monty Python comedy troupe (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin) as they perform many of their sketches at the Hollywood Bowl. The film also features Carol Cleveland in numerous supporting roles and Neil Innes performing songs. Also present for the shows and participating as an 'extra' was Python superfan Kim "Howard" Johnson.
The show also included filmed inserts which were mostly taken from two Monty Python specials, Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus, which had been broadcast on German television in 1972. The performance was recorded on videotape during the show's four-day run starting September 26, 1980 and transferred to film.[3] In the wake of Life of Brian's worldwide success, the Pythons originally planned to release a film consisting of the two German shows redubbed and re-edited, but this proved impractical, and so Hollywood Bowl was released instead.
Although it mostly contains sketches from the television series, the scripts and performers are not identical to those seen on television. The line-up also includes some sketches that predated Monty Python's Flying Circus, including the "Four Yorkshiremen sketch", which dated from 1967's At Last the 1948 Show.
- ^ a b "Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 20 May 1983. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
- ^ Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl at Box Office Mojo
- ^ "'Python in Hollywood". The New York Times. 25 June 1982.