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1964

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Starring	Victor Spinetti, Norman Rossington, Lionel Blair, John Lennon
Director	Richard Lester
Genres	Music/Musical

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A Hard Day's Night

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT presents a fictionalized day in the life of The Beatles as they give a performance on a live television show. Filmed just a month after their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964, this film introduces us to the unique personalities of each member of the Beatles. The film opens with the band boarding a train mobbed with adoring young fans (mostly women) as they attempt to travel to the television studio in London. The antics of the band during rehearsals and makeup application provide a large part of the comic material in this feature, though there are other moments of pure hilarity. The unscripted vignette featuring a hangover-suffering Ringo is especially funny, particularly when he is arrested and risks having to miss the live television broadcast. None of this goes unnoticed by the director of the show, played by Victor Spinetti, a recurring cast member in Beatles movies. As the clock ticks away dramatically, our heroes manage to free Ringo from jail and sneak onto the stage in the nick of time, delighted in the knowledge that they have nearly driven the director mad in the process. Arguably the first music video ever made, this faux documentary and its shooting style have been a tremendous influence on nearly every rock and roll feature since.

Starring	Victor Spinetti, Norman Rossington, Lionel Blair, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell, Derek Nimmo, Victor Spi
Director	Richard Lester
Studio	WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 29 mins
Certificate
Genres	Music/Musical
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1964 To Rent: DVD: 30 Sep 2002

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- Comic fantasia with music; an enormous commercial success with the director trying every cinematic gag in the book, it led directly to all the kaleidoscopic swinging London spy thrillers and comedies of the later sixties, and so has a lot to answer for; b
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  Not For Morons but for Fans
  
  Obviously 3 of the existing reviewers have no understanding of The Beatles. This is how they were... and this was their genuine sense of humour.... and this was... read more »
  
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  The phenomena that was The Beatles
  
  How do you describe what it was like to live in the era of 'The Beatles'? Even now, and perhaps in a hundred years time, there are The Beatles and then ... read more »
  
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  Amusing, nostalgic but inspirational!
  
  If only modern 'musicians' had half the intelligence, whit and humour of these guys....but less about modern trash and more about the film!
  
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  A Hard Days Night
  
  Oh happy memories of my youth.
  
  Brilliant music a must for all Beatles fans.
  
  Sums up the music and attitudes of the era.
  
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Actress Julie Walters has fired off an email to the Business Secretary urging him to step in to keep a top film studio open, insisting its planned closure will affect the country's movie industry. Twickenham Film Studios, which has hosted shoots for The Iron Lady, War Horse and The Beatles' movies A Hard Day's Night and Help!, has gone into administration and will be gradually wound down by June (12). Gerald Krasner, who is handling the administration, recently revealed to the BBC the business Read more
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  A HARD DAY'S NIGHT presents a fictionalized day in the life of The Beatles as they give a performance on a live television show. Filmed just a month after their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964, this film introduces us to the unique personalities of each member of the Beatles. ...