Jabberwocky (film)



Jabberwocky is a 1977 British fantasy film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam (his first as a solo director). It stars Michael Palin as a young cooper who is forced through clumsy, often slapstick misfortunes to hunt a terrible dragon after the death of his father.

The film's title is taken from the nonsense poem "Jabberwocky" from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.


 * Dolled-Up Installment: It was released in some areas as Monty Python's Jabberwocky, despite half of the group having no involvement.
 * Although Neil Innes, sometimes called the seventh Python, does appear.
 * Too Dumb to Live: When the king discovers that his land is threatened by the Jabberwock, he holds a contest to find the strongest knight in the land, by having all the knights battle each other to the death. Simply putting all his knights together into a single army, with all of them alive, apparently just wasn't done back then.