The Crimson Permanent Assurance (1983)

Directors

Terry Gilliam

Cast

Sydney Arnold, Ross Davidson, Myrtle Devenish, Eric Francis, Guy Bertrand, Andrew Bicknell, Tim Douglas, Russell Kilmister, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman

The story

The elderly British employees of the Permanent Assurance Company, a staid London firm which has recently been taken over by the Very Big Corporation of America (VBCA), rebel against their much younger corporate masters when one of them is wrongfully sacked. Having locked the surviving supervisors in the safe as hostages, and forced their boss to walk a makeshift plank out a window, they commandeer their Edwardian office building, which suddenly weighs anchor, uses its scaffolding and tarpaulins as sails, and is turned into a pirate ship. The stone office building starts to move as if it were a ship.

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