John Cleese: Man with Flying Contraption • The Announcer • BBC Man • ...
The Spanish Inquisition
Monty Python's Flying Circus
John Cleese credited as playing...
Man with Flying Contraption • The Announcer • BBC Man • Politician • Gumby Standing on Water • First Businessman • Counsel
- The Announcer: And now for the very first time on the silver screen comes the film from two books which once shocked a generation. From Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights' and from the 'International Guide to Semaphore Code,' Twentieth Century Vole presents 'The Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights'.
- The Announcer: [voiceover of stock footage of a Roman chariot race] From the pulsating pages of history, from the dark and furious days of Imperial Rome, we bring you a story that shattered the world! A tale so gripping that they said it could not he filmed! A unique event in cinema history: 'Julius Caesar' On an Aldis Lamp!
- [cuts to closeup of Caesar walking in a Roman street. A soothsayer runs up to him, wild-eyed, and flashes an Aldis lamp]
- Soothsayer: [flashing Aldis lamp] Beware the Ides of March.
- [Caesar is stabbed by the assassins, and as he collapses to the ground, he pulls out a very big Aldis lamp, and flashes it]
- Caesar: [flashing his Aldis lamp] Et tu, Brute?
- [cuts to a Western street, with two cowboys facing each other and holding Morse buzzers]
- The Announcer: From the makers of 'Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Morse Code.'
- [the two buzz a bit. One of them collapses to the ground]
- Gunman: [buzzing on his Morse buzzer] AAAAHHH!
- [Cuts to a Red Indian making smoke signals]
- The Announcer: And the smoke-signal version of 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'!