A Hard Day's Night (Criterion Collection)
The Beatles, starring in their first full-length, hilarious, action-packed film!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 24, 2014
- Originally Released: 1964
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | The Beatles | |
Performer: | John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfred Brambell, Norman Rossington, Victor Spinetti, John Junkin, Anna Quayle, Kenneth Haigh, Richard Vernon & Eddie Malin | |
Directed by | Richard Lester | |
Edited by | John Jympson | |
Screenplay by | Alun Owen | |
Produced by | Walter Shenson | |
Director of Photography: | Gilbert Taylor |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
It is fun and it will never cease to be fun. Monstrous marauding aliens can find a time capsule of this millennia after our sun collapses on itself and if they don't laugh, they should seek counseling.
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Den of Geek
Rating: A+ --
The whole movie is an ecstatic mix of serendipity and invention. The Beatles were ready for their cinematic breakthrough.
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Orange County Register
Victor Spinetti has a terrific time as the temperamental TV director who dreads being exiled to doing the news in Welsh.
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The Spectator
Sometimes reminds one of silent slapstick and sometimes of the Marx brothers. There have been many efforts to recapture the spirit of those old comedies, but Mr. Lester's is the first I've seen that gets beyond self-conscious pastiche.
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Esquire Magazine
5 stars out of 5 -- Still wonderful, and a bona fide musical masterpiece.
Empire
...As a vehicle for the mop-tops' schoolboy humour and all-smiles-and-screams gig, it's infectious stuff...
Total Film
[T]he manufacture of spontaneity is what this idiosyncratically cynical masterpiece is all about.
Film Comment
Product Description:
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--the Beatles' first--introduces us to the unique personalities of each member of the band. The film opens with the Fab Four 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 broadcast. None of this goes unnoticed by the director of the show, played by Victor Spinetti, who went on to become 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.
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- UPC: 715515118514
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