Directed by Terry Gilliam / Screenplay by Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin

Following his debut with 1975’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Terry Gilliam’s next two features as director offered further excursions into medieval mayhem - and while the Pythonesque flavour lingered, it was increasingly seasoned by Gilliam’s penchant for the outright fantastical. First came Jabberwocky (1977), a slapstick Dark Ages caper inspired by the Lewis Carroll poem: it was a patchy affair and a box office flop, nonetheless enlivened by an impressive monster and a fine cast headed by fellow Python Michael Palin alongside the likes of Max Wall, John Le Mesurier and Harry H Corbett. But greater success was just around the corner. Courtesy of George Harrison’s Handmade Films (which also bankrolled the 1979 masterpiece Monty Python’s Life of Brian), Gilliam’s next picture enjoyed a budget ten times that of Jabberwocky, allowing him to realise the kind of ambitious visual set pieces that were to become his filmmaking trademark. With the addition of an eye-catching cast and a sharp, imaginative script co-written with Palin, Time Bandits was a critical and commercial hit. It’s the picaresque tale of Kevin, a young boy fascinated by history, who falls in with a band of dwarfs who use a magical map to travel through holes in the fabric of time and space. Historical encounters ensue with figures as diverse as Robin Hood (John Cleese), Agamemnon (Sean Connery) and Napoleon (Ian Holm), before fate catches up in the form of the benign but fearsome Supreme Being (Ralph Richardson) who wants his stolen map back - and the malevolent entity Evil (the mighty David Warner) who lures them to his Fortress of Ultimate Darkness for a final showdown…

Framed Dimensions: 330mm x 410mm

Acrylic on 300gsm Arches oil paper
Glazed, mounted and framed

Supplied with signed letter of authenticity from Barnaby.