Jabberwocky (1977) Terry Gilliam’s first feature-length foray into directing a film met with a mixed reception. The Lewis Carroll anti-Beowulf children’s verse inspired an anti-fairy tale where the inept hero, Dennis Cooper [Michael Palin], unintentionally succeeds in slaying the monster, a Godzilla-puppet Jabberwock, and thereby saving the king, Bruno the Questionable  [Max Wall] and marrying … More Jabberwocky (1977)