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  1. www.latimes.com › entertainment-arts › moviesHow George Harrison rescued ‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian ...

    Oct 10, 2019 · A seven-day film festival stretching Oct. 10-20 in Beverly Hills celebrates the legacy of HandMade Films, the English company ex-Beatle George Harrison created initially to help his pals in Monty ...

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  3. faroutmagazine.co.uk › the-beatles-george-harrisonWhen George Harrison financed the Monty Python’s movie ‘Life ...

    Oct 21, 2020 · Harrison jumped at the opportunity to finance the production of Life of Brian and even had to remortgage his home as he gambled everything on the film being a smash hit at the box office. Python star Eric Idle later called this “the most anybody’s ever paid for a cinema ticket in history”. The former Beatle injected around $4million of ...

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Monty_Python's_Life_of_BrianMonty Python's Life of Brian - Wikipedia

    Box office. $20.7 million [ 3 ] Monty Python's Life of Brian (also known as Life of Brian) is a 1979 British black comedy film starring and written by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin). It was directed by Jones. The film tells the story of Brian Cohen (played by ...

  5. www.loudersound.com › features › monty-python-lifeMonty Python: the Led Zeppelin and George Harrison ... - Louder

    Feb 10, 2024 · Enter George Harrison, Python fanatic and close friend of Eric Idle. Idle and producer John Goldstone went to see Harrison at his home in the Hollywood Hills and the former Beatles man promised to pay for the whole thing. "I can't remember whether he'd read the script already or not,” Goldstone told The Guardian in 2003.

  6. www.slashfilm.com › 800920 › how-the-beatles-georgeHow The Beatles' George Harrison Saved Monty Python's ... - /Film

    Mar 16, 2022 · feels Python-esque in its bits — think George suddenly eating his own cymbal, or the mad scientist sub-plot–that it's hard to believe it was made years before Monty Python hit the airwaves ...

  7. faroutmagazine.co.uk › michael-palin-discussesMichael Palin on how George Harrison funded ‘Life of Brian’

    May 5, 2022 · Speaking at Film Feast Suffolk in 2018, Life of Brian star and Monty Python member Michael Palin, revealed his surprise at Harrison’s generous act. Explaining the situation, Palin reveals how Eric Idle was in Los Angeles and happened to meet up with George Harrison, stating, “George was a great fan of [Monty] Python as it turned out.

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  9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Monty_PythonMonty Python - Wikipedia

    The name Monty Python's Flying Circus appears in the opening animation for season four, but in the end credits, the show is listed as simply Monty Python. [69] Although Cleese left the show, he was credited as a writer for three of the six episodes, largely concentrated in the "Michael Ellis" episode, which had begun life as one of the many drafts of the "Holy Grail" motion picture.