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Bookmark this pageA Hard Day's Night (1964)
Director: Richard Lester
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A sanitised semi-documentary version of life on the road with John, Paul, George and Ringo, with a paper-thin storyline about difficulties with their manager and Paul's Grandpa (Brambell) serving as a linking device to connect scenes of the Fab Four in the studio, in concert, and in flight from frantic fans. Lester's gimmicky camera-trickery - jump-cuts, fast and slow motion, etc, etc - is so much icing on the cake, and has dated badly; but the mop-tops are likeably relaxed, with Lennon offering a few welcome moments of his dry, acerbic wit.Author: GA
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- Rob said...
- Posted on Aug 23 2009 20:51 A classic. The camera-trickery works fine. And Wilf Brambell is indeed 'very clean', referring to his then-new hit as the elder Steptoe. Unmissable.
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Cast & crew
Director: Richard Lester
Producer: Walter Shenson
Cast: The Beatles, Wilfrid Brambell, Norman Rossington, John Junkin, Victor Spinetti, Anna Quayle, Lionel Blair, Brian Epstein full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Rated: U
Duration: 85 mins
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