Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

[Monty Python] Terry Jones (director, screenwriter, starring)
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Michael Palin (screenwriters, starring)

N.p. N.p., 1982. Draft script for the 1983 British comedy film. Noted as copy No. 58 in manuscript ink on the title page. Bound in with the script are ten pages of Xerographically duplicated storyboards for the short film-within-the-film, "The Crimson Permanent Assurance."

The final Monty Python film to star actor and writer Graham Chapman, before his death in 1989, and a return to the sketch comedy format which characterized the group's earlier television series.

Shot on location in Queensway, Strathblane, and Lancashire, England.

Red untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present, dated March, 1982. 115 leaves, with last page of text numbered 115. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock, rectos only, with five pink revision pages laid in at the rear of the script, dated 26/5/82. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, with light foxing throughout, bound internally with two silver brads.


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