A Hard Day's Night (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray + DVD)
The Beatles, starring in their first full-length, hilarious, action-packed film!
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- Number of Discs: 2
- 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:
A Hard Day's Night perfectly encapsulates the rash of Beatlemania that was exploding onto the world stage and making its way across the pond to America.
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Film Inquiry
The music endures on its own, and the movie endures because it offers so much more than the music. -- Grade: A-
A.V. Club
...As a vehicle for the mop-tops' schoolboy humour and all-smiles-and-screams gig, it's infectious stuff...
Total Film
Rating: 4/5 --
As invigorating and funny now as it was on its original release half a century ago, A Hard Day's Night offers both a perfect showcase for the Beatles and an intriguing snapshot of fast-changing, early-1960s British society.
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Independent (UK)
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
...A HARD DAY'S NIGHT creates pure, infectious joy. Larking about is what these Beatles do best, pleasure is what they convey...
Los Angeles Times
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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