Film

Ripping Yarns

Name: Ripping Yarns
Director: Terry Hughes
Released: 1976
Cast: Michael Palin, Charles McKeown, Barbara New, David Griffin, Peter Graham

1976 · 272 min · Dir. Terry Hughes

Not as well-known as Fawlty Towers or The Rutles, Michael Palin and Terry Jones's Ripping Yarns is poised for discovery as among the best of the post-Python projects. Palin essays a gallery of colorful (or colorless, as in the case of one of the series' best episodes, "The Testing of Eric Olthwaite"), archetypal characters drawn from the storybook adventures that thrilled English schoolboys pre-World War II.