March 31, 1983 –
All good things must come to an end: the sixth and final Monty Python film featuring all six member of the troupe before Graham Chapman’s death in 1989, Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life opened in the US on this date.
Monty Python refused to show Universal Studios a movie script, figuring, as Eric Idle said, “If we couldn’t work out how to make a Monty Python film, they couldn’t tell us.” Instead they showed them a poem, which was a summary of this movie, and a budget projection. “And to their credit,” says Idle, “they paid for the film on that.” Idle recites the poem on the DVD version of the movie.
The Haus of Dcaligari 