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Synopsis. The plot is a study of a day in the life of the Fab Four beginning with them running from their adoring fans to catch a train. Every plot point circles around the band getting to a television show in order to perform a live concert, and within this stream of action is a series of slapstick, zany, and otherwise wacky bits of funniness.
A Hard Day's Night has been praised as a benchmark for music film production, and remains influential to this day. Director Dick Lester used a documentary style of filming to capture the claustrophobia of Beatlemania, and writer Alun Owen delivered a script which epitomised the quick-witted humour of the band.
Hard Day's Night, A (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Tell Me Why The whole picture’s been working up to this, the first song for the TV show, John Lennon’s vocal and harmony from Paul McCartney and George Harrison, on the Lennon-McCartney composition, shot at the since-demolished Scala Theatre, Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia, London, director Richard Lester providing maybe more fans than Beatles, in A ...
Mike McGrady Newsday [Hard Day's Night] adds up to a breathless, sometimes funny film maybe even worth a squeal or two. Jan 4, 2018 Full Review Jonathan Romney Film Comment Magazine This re ...
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A Hard Day’s Night, British comedy- musical film, released in 1964, that starred the Beatles in their first feature movie. Released during the height of Beatlemania and the British Invasion, A Hard Day’s Night is now widely considered a classic. A Hard Day's Night. (From left to right) Ringo Starr, George Harrison, John Lennon, and Paul ...
Mar 14, 2008 · The phrase “A Hard Day’s Night” had been coined by an exhausted Ringo Starr following a filming session on 19 March 1964. We went to do a job, and we’d worked all day and we happened to work all night. I came up still thinking it was day I suppose, and I said, ‘It’s been a hard day…’ and I looked around and saw it was dark so I ...
