A Hard Day's Night
The first and most successful Beatles movie - made at the height of Beatlemania in 1964. Depicting a couple of days in the lives of the group, the Beatles travel from Liverpool by train for a London TV show. Nominated for Best Screenplay and Best Music at the 1965 Academy Awards, the film is considered one of the best musical films of all time - described by Roger Ebert as "one of the great life-affirming landmarks of the movies". Features the songs A Hard Day's Night, All My Loving, Can't Buy Me Love and She Loves You amongst others.
1964Rating: PG87 minsUK
ComedyMusicClassic
- Director:
- Richard Lester ('Help!', 'Superman II')
- Writer:
- Alun Owen
- Cast:
- John LennonPaul McCartneyGeorge HarrisonRingo StarrVictor SpinettiAnna QuayleDeryck Guyler
A Hard Day's Night / Reviews
Time Out
The mop-tops are likeably relaxed, with Lennon offering a few welcome moments of his dry, acerbic wit.
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It's a fine conglomeration of madcap clowning in the old Marx Brothers' style, and it is done with such a dazzling use of camera that it tickles the intellect and electrifies the nerves.
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Hollywood Reporter
The film is mad, mad and crazy, shrewdly designed for the teenage and calculated also to attract the curious and the oldsters who enjoy this sort of thing.
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Empire Magazine
Great band, great music, great film. Not only that, it remains a fascinating portrait of Britain on the cusp of change.
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BBC
Lester's innovative film is a timewarp memento of that brief 1963-4 phase in their history known as Beatlemania.
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