The Crimson Permanent Assurance

The Crimson Permanent Assurance
Opening titles
Directed byTerry Gilliam
Written byTerry Gilliam
Produced byTerry Gilliam
John Goldstone
StarringSydney Arnold
Guy Bertrand
Andrew Bicknell
John Scott Martin
Leslie Sarony
CinematographyRoger Pratt
Edited byJulian Doyle
Music byJohn Du Prez
Production
companies
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release dates
  • 31 March 1983 (1983-03-31) (United States)
  • 23 June 1983 (1983-06-23) (United Kingdom)
[1]
Running time
16 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Crimson Permanent Assurance is a 1983 British swashbuckling comedy short film directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Sydney Arnold and Guy Bertrand.[2] It plays as the prelude to the film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983).

The film includes actor Matt Frewer's debut performance.

  1. ^ McCall, Douglas (2013-11-12). Monty Python: A Chronology, 1969-2012, 2nd ed. p. 97. McFarland. ISBN 9780786478118.
  2. ^ "The Crimson Permanent Assurance". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 11 January 2024.