Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Series)
The Spanish Inquisition (1970)
John Cleese: Man with Flying Contraption, The Announcer, BBC Man, Politician, Gumby Standing on Water, First Businessman, Counsel
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Quotes
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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'.
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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'!