"a Western film written by Richard Condon; ""Shades of a Personality""; film versions of ""The Lord of the Rings"" and ""The Three Musketeers"" starring the group (although Richard Lester, who directed the group's first two movies, went on to direct his own version of ""The Three Musketeers"" in 1973), and a script by playwright Joe Orton called ""Up Against It"". Robert Zemeckis was planning a remake of the film ""Yellow Submarine"" with motion capture technology but it was cancelled in 2011. The Beatles have been the subject of a number of documentary films. Several fictional films not depicting The Beatles"
"in the movie ""A Hard Day's Night"". Douglas Millings Arnold ""Dougie"" Millings born 30 July 1913 in Manchester; died 20 September 2001 in London was a London-based tailor known as ""the Beatles' tailor"". Millings' shop was located on 63 Old Compton Street in Soho and began designing for British pop stars such as Cliff Richard, Tommy Steele, and Adam Faith in the early 1960s and made the collarless suits the Beatles wore on their first American tour in 1964 as well as the stage suits for the movie ""Help!"". Millings made more than 500 outfits for the band. Millings had"
"in the style of Laurence Olivier in the film ""Richard III"". Sellers' version was a UK Top 20 hit in 1965. A Hard Day's Night (song) ""A Hard Day's Night"" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. Credited to Lennon–McCartney, it was written by John Lennon, with some collaboration from Paul McCartney. It was released on the film soundtrack of the same name in 1964. It was also released in the UK as a single, with ""Things We Said Today"" as its B-side. The song featured prominently on the soundtrack to the Beatles' first feature film, ""A"
"A Hard Day's Night (album) A Hard Day's Night is the third studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 10 July 1964, with side one containing songs from the soundtrack to their film of the same name. The American version of the album was released two weeks earlier, on 26 June 1964 by United Artists Records, with a different track listing. In contrast to their first two albums, all 13 tracks on ""A Hard Day's Night"" were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney showcasing the development of their songwriting talents. The album includes the title"
"""A Hard Day's Night"". Leslie Halliwell describes it as an Allmovie's Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. describes it as In a contemporary review in ""The New York Times"" their critic Bosley Crowther was not impressed: A novelisation entitled ""The Beatles in Help!"" was written by Al Hine and published by Dell in 1965. A sequence featuring Frankie Howerd and Wendy Richard was filmed but left out of final editing owing to its length. However, the sequence was left in the film novelisation. Like ""A Hard Day's Night"", ""Help!"" was originally distributed theatrically by United Artists – the company handled distribution from"
"A Hard Day's Night (song) ""A Hard Day's Night"" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. Credited to Lennon–McCartney, it was written by John Lennon, with some collaboration from Paul McCartney. It was released on the film soundtrack of the same name in 1964. It was also released in the UK as a single, with ""Things We Said Today"" as its B-side. The song featured prominently on the soundtrack to the Beatles' first feature film, ""A Hard Day's Night"", and was on their album of the same name. The song topped the charts in both the United"
"of the Beatles, and in particular John Lennon. When the band members were contracted to make a feature film, they chose Lester from a list of possible directors. ""A Hard Day's Night"" (1964) showed an exaggerated and simplified version of The Beatles' characters, and proved to be an effective marketing tool. Many of its stylistic innovations survive today as the conventions of music videos, in particular the multi-angle filming of a live performance. Lester was sent an award from MTV as ""Father of the Music Video."" ""A Hard Day's Night"" was a huge critical and commercial success. Lester then directed"
"Help! Help! is the fifth studio album by English rock band the Beatles and the soundtrack from their film ""Help!"". It was released on 6 August 1965. Produced by George Martin, it was the fifth UK album release by the band, and contains fourteen songs in its original British form. Seven of these, including the singles ""Help!"" and ""Ticket to Ride"", appeared in the film and took up the first side of the vinyl album. The second side contained seven other releases including the most-covered song ever written, ""Yesterday"". The American release was a true soundtrack album, mixing the first"
"on the Beatles' musical-comedy films ""A Hard Day's Night"" (1964) and ""Help!"" (1965). In November 1965, McGrath directed the Beatles' first-ever music videos (known at the time as ""promo clips""), filming the band miming to five of their hit songs, including ""Ticket to Ride"", ""Help!"" and ""Day Tripper"". In the 2004 film ""The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"", Alan Williams plays the unnamed director of ""Casino Royale"", whom Sellers (played by Geoffrey Rush) calls ""Joe"". Joseph McGrath (film director) Joseph McGrath (born 1930, Glasgow) is a Scottish film and television director and screenwriter. He studied at Glasgow School of"
"Alun Owen Alun Davies Owen (24 November 1925 – 6 December 1994) was a Welsh screenwriter and actor predominantly active in television. However, he is best remembered by a wider audience for writing the screenplay of The Beatles' debut feature film ""A Hard Day's Night"" (1964), which earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nomination. Owen was born in Liverpool. His father, Sidney Owen, was a Welshman from Dolgellau, North Wales, and his mother, Ruth, was from Holyhead, but of Irish descent. Alun Owen attended St Michael in the Hamlet Anglican Primary School and Oulton High School. For"
"Spinetti was born. Spinetti was the eldest of six, and his younger brother, Henry (born 1951), is a session drummer. Spinetti was educated at Monmouth School and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff, of which he later became a Fellow. Early on, he worked as a waiter and factory worker. It was at the college that Spinetti met actor Graham Curnow, who became his partner. Spinetti gained international fame during the 1960s due to his association with the Beatles. He appeared in the first three Beatles films: ""A Hard Day's Night"" (1964), ""Help!"" (1965), and ""Magical"
"with Sutcliffe's mother, who had been informed by telegram. Harrison and Lennon were helpful towards the distraught Kirchherr, with Lennon telling her one day that she definitely had to decide if she wanted to ""Live or die, there is no other question."" In 1964, Kirchherr became a freelance photographer, and with her colleague Max Scheler she took ""behind the scenes"" photographs of the Beatles during the filming of ""A Hard Day's Night"", as an assignment for the German ""Stern"" magazine. Epstein had forbidden any publicity photographs to be taken without his permission, but Kirchherr phoned Harrison, who said he would"
"scene of ""A Hard Day's Night"". It was in fact filmed in a van, with crew members rocking the vehicle to fake the action of a train in motion. Paul McCartney is seen lip-syncing in the song in both the train scene and in the live performance at the end of the film, despite not singing in the actual recording. I Should Have Known Better ""I Should Have Known Better"" is a song by English rock band the Beatles composed by John Lennon (credited to Lennon–McCartney), and originally issued on ""A Hard Day's Night"", their soundtrack for the film of"
"commercial success with the director trying every cinematic gag in the book"" and awarded it a full four stars. The film is credited as being one of the most influential of all musical films, inspiring numerous spy films, the Monkees' television show and pop music videos. In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked it the 88th greatest British film of the 20th century. Bound for a London show from Liverpool, the Beatles escape a horde of fans (""A Hard Day's Night""). Once they are aboard the train and trying to relax, various interruptions test their patience: after a dalliance with"
"the Beatles' first two live action feature films, ""A Hard Day's Night"" (1964), and ""Help!"" (1965), quipping that ""I must be one of the few people who can claim they have seen John, Paul, George and Ringo naked."" She also worked on the James Bond films ""Live and Let Die"" and ""Rollerball"" with Roger Moore, and the spoof ""Casino Royale"" with David Niven Harris also designed costumes for the ""Carry On"" film ""Carry On Cleo"" (1964), a sword and sandal spoof set in ancient Rome and Egypt, described as ""perhaps the best"" of the series. Harris died after a brief"
"writer, because the Lennon–McCartney writing name was ""a really hot item"". For reasons unclear, Evans did not receive any royalties and stayed at his £38-a-week pay (£ in modern currency). Evans appeared in four (out of five) Beatles' films. During the filming of the Beatles' first feature film, ""A Hard Day's Night"", Evans appeared in a cameo role, carrying an upright bass in between John Lennon and Millie in the backstage scene in which Millie mistakes Lennon for someone else. In ""Help!"", Evans played a confused channel swimmer who pops up through an ice-hole in Austria, and on a beach"
"songs were ""more sophisticated musically"" than before. Side one of the LP contains the songs from the movie soundtrack. Side two contains songs written for, but not included in, the film, although a 1980s re-release of the movie includes a prologue before the opening credits with ""I'll Cry Instead"" on the soundtrack. ""A Hard Day's Night"" is the first Beatles album to feature entirely original compositions, and the only one where all the songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Lennon dominates the songwriting, being the primary author of nine out of the thirteen tracks on the album,"
"directed by Richard Lester. The title was changed to ""Help!"" after the single's release. In the film, the song plays over a sequence during which the Beatles attempt to ski and frequently fall over. The track appeared on the band's 1965 album ""Help!"", which was issued on 6 August in the UK and on 13 August in the US. ""Ticket to Ride"" was the seventh consecutive chart-topping single for the Beatles in the UK and the first Beatles track released with a running time exceeding three minutes. On the American charts, it was the third of six number 1 singles"
"the United Artists representative overseeing the production of the first two Beatles' films: ""A Hard Day's Night"" and ""Help!"". They went on to have four children: daughters Gayla, Dhara, Mandy and son Julian. As well as his work for Apple Corps, Aspinall and his wife were the sole directors of their own Standby Films Ltd. company, which is run from their home in Twickenham, London. In 1999, Standby Films released a film about Jimi Hendrix, called ""Hendrix: Band of Gypsys"". Aspinall died of lung cancer in New York City in 2008. His funeral was at the Church of St Mary"
"""which was rather sad because it cost a large amount and I only realised this later!"" Once back in New York, Worth contacted Harrison, hoping to secure support from United Artists, the film studio responsible for the Beatles' feature films ""A Hard Day's Night"", ""Help!"" and ""Yellow Submarine"". Late in 1970, Harrison attended a special screening of the assembled footage and was so moved, according to Worth, that within days he offered the services of the Beatles' own Apple Films as a distributor. Worth credits Harrison with saving the production and thereby ""chang[ing] my life"". The majority of ""Raga""s musical"
"records on the Hot 100: ""Can't Buy Me Love"" became the Beatles' fourth UK number 1 and their third single to sell over a million copies in the UK. As of November 2012, it had sold 1.53 million copies there. The song was included on the Beatles' ""A Hard Day's Night"" album in June 1964 and the US soundtrack album of the same name, released on United Artists Records. For its sequence in the film ""A Hard Day's Night"", director Richard Lester used crane shots to capture the four band members running and leaping in a sports field. In his"
"cannot cure the wound, at least they add a note of reassurance that he's not alone with his pain."" The Beatles filmed the title performance for the movie ""Help!"" on 22 April 1965. The same footage (without the darts and credits seen in the film sequence) was used as a clip to promote the release of the single. It was shown starting in July 1965 on programmes such as ""Top of the Pops"" and ""Thank Your Lucky Stars"". They made another promotional clip of ""Help!"" on 23 November 1965 for inclusion in the year-end recap special of ""Top of the"
"when editing the 1962 film ""A Prize of Arms""; the two worked together on ""The Man Who Finally Died"" and 1964's ""Zulu"", which Tony Sloman called Jympson's ""career-high"" saying the film was ""magnificently edited"". He followed this up with a further success, ""A Hard Day's Night"", a film starring the Beatles, was released to critical acclaim. The film's editing style has been strongly praised and is considered highly influential. James B. Harris picked Jympson to edit his directorial debut ""The Bedford Incident"" in 1965, the year he also edited ""Sands of the Kalahari"". He edited ""Where Eagles Dare"" (1968) and"
"playwright Harold Pinter and leading man Dirk Bogarde, including ""The Servant"" (1963) and ""Accident"" (1967). Voluntary exiles Richard Lester and Stanley Kubrick were also active in the UK. Lester had major hits with The Beatles film ""A Hard Day's Night"" (1964) and ""The Knack ...and How to Get It"" (1965) while Kubrick's ""Dr. Strangelove"" (1963) and """" (1968). While Kubrick settled in Hertfordshire in the early 1960s and would remain in England for the rest of his career, these two films retained a strong American influence. Other films of this era involved prominent filmmakers from elsewhere in Europe, ""Repulsion"" (1965)"
"The Beatles Movie Medley ""The Beatles' Movie Medley"" is a compilation of snippets from various Beatles songs. It remains the only Beatles single not released on CD. The single peaked at #12 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, and #10 on the British charts in 1982. The songs were chosen from the Beatles' films, ""A Hard Day's Night"", ""Help!"", ""Magical Mystery Tour"", ""Yellow Submarine"" and ""Let It Be"". The songs included in the medley are ""Magical Mystery Tour"", ""All You Need Is Love"", ""You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"", ""I Should Have Known Better"", ""A Hard Day's Night"", ""Ticket to"
"instead of dialog. In 1964, The Moody Blues producer, Alex Murray, wanted to promote his version of ""Go Now"". The short film clip he produced and directed to promote the single has a striking visual style that predates Queen's similar ""Bohemian Rhapsody"" video by a full decade. It also predates what the Beatles did with promotional films of their singles ""Rain"" and ""Paperback Writer"", both released in 1966. In the same year, the Beatles starred in their first feature film, ""A Hard Day's Night"", directed by Richard Lester. Shot in black-and-white and presented as a mock documentary, it interspersed comedic"
"Help! (song) ""Help!"" is a song by the Beatles that served as the title song for both the 1965 film and its soundtrack album. It was released as a single in July 1965, and was number one for three weeks in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Credited to Lennon–McCartney, ""Help!"" was written by John Lennon with some assistance from Paul McCartney. During an interview with ""Playboy"" in 1980, Lennon recounted: ""The whole Beatles thing was just beyond comprehension. I was subconsciously crying out for help"". It was ranked at number 29 on ""Rolling Stone""'s 500 Greatest Songs"
"films ""A Hard Day's Night"" and ""Help!."" Misery (Beatles song) ""Misery"" is a song performed by English rock band The Beatles on their album ""Please Please Me"". It was co-written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. According to Lennon, ""It was kind of a John song more than a Paul song, but it was written together."" McCartney was to say: ""I don't think either one of us dominated on that one, it was just a hacking job."" A 1963 single by Kenny Lynch made ""Misery"" the first Beatles' song to be covered by another artist. In February 1963, Helen Shapiro"
"released a cover on their 2008 album, ""B-Sides The Beatles"". Tori Kelly sang the song as the character Millie Pede in Beat Bugs. I'm Happy Just to Dance with You ""I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"" is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and recorded by The Beatles for the film soundtrack to ""A Hard Day's Night"". Lead vocals are by George Harrison, whose performance in the film marked the first mass media depiction of Harrison singing lead. It was written specifically for George Harrison to sing at a time when he lacked the confidence to"
"any ideas for their non-""Bond"" film, Harry Saltzman, who had previously made ""The Iron Petticoat"" with Hope, suggested a Bob Hope movie. Zec replied that he had seen a British rock and roll group called The Beatles that had sellout crowds and thought about featuring them in a film. Saltzman laughed and asked why he would want to make a film about four young long-haired kids from Liverpool when he had Bob Hope. United Artists made The Beatles film with Walter Shenson and ""A Hard Day's Night"" was more successful than ""Call Me Bwana"". The film was originally intended to"
"I Should Have Known Better ""I Should Have Known Better"" is a song by English rock band the Beatles composed by John Lennon (credited to Lennon–McCartney), and originally issued on ""A Hard Day's Night"", their soundtrack for the film of the same name released on 10 July 1964. ""I Should Have Known Better"" was also issued as the B-side of the US single ""A Hard Day's Night"" released on 13 July. An orchestrated version of the song conducted by George Martin appears on the North American version of the album, ""A Hard Day's Night Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"". In January"
"Two of Us (2000 film) Two of Us is a 2000 television drama (and the third original VH1 film) which offers a dramatized account of April 24, 1976, six years after the break-up of the Beatles and the day in which Lorne Michaels made a statement on ""Saturday Night Live"" offering the Beatles $3,000 to reunite on his program. It was directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg (who also directed the 1970 Beatles film, ""Let It Be)"" and starred Jared Harris as John Lennon and Aidan Quinn as Paul McCartney. Beatles historian Martin Lewis served as the film's technical adviser, and the"
"facilities – making it cost far less in the UK to achieve the same quality of production. A number of American film makers worked in Britain in this period on a near-permanent basis, including Sidney Lumet, Stanley Donen, and John Huston. Stanley Kubrick moved to Britain in the early sixties to make ""Lolita"", ""Dr. Strangelove"", """" and ""A Clockwork Orange"" amongst others. Another expatriate American, Richard Lester, directed The Beatles' films ""A Hard Day's Night"" and ""Help!"". To qualify as a British film a minimum of 85% of the film had to be shot in the United Kingdom or the"