from United Artists
Directed by
Richard
Lester
Starring
John
Lennon (John)
Paul
McCartney (Paul)
George
Harrison (George)
Ringo
Starr (Ringo)
Wilfrid Brambell (Grandfather)
Norman Rossington (Norm)
John Junkin (Shake)
Victor Spinetti (T.V. Director)
Anna Quayle (Millie)
Deryck Guyler (Police Inspector)
Richard Vernon (Man on Train)
Eddie Malin (Hotel waiter)
Robin Ray (T.V. Floor Manager)
Lionel Blair (T.V. Choreographer)
Alison Seebohm (Secretary)
David Jaxon (Young Boy)
John Bluthal (Man stealing car)
Patti Boyd (Girl on train)
Phil Collins (Screaming Fan)
Kenneth Haigh (Simon Marshall)
Clare Kelly (Barmaid)
David Langton (Actor)
Derek Nimmo (Leslie Jackson, the Magician)
Marianne Stone (Society reporter)
Michael Trubshawe (Casino manager)
Written by
Alun
Owen
Original music by
John
Lennon
Paul
McCartney
George
Martin
Rated:  |
 The
Fab Four from Liverpool--John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George
Harrison, and Ringo Starr--in their first movie. Nobody expected
A Hard Day's Night to be much more than a quick exploitation
of a passing musical fad, but when the film opened it immediately
seduced the world--even the stuffiest critics fell over themselves
in praise (highbrow Dwight Macdonald called it "not only
a gay, spontaneous, inventive comedy but it is also as good cinema
as I have seen for a long time"). Wisely, screenwriter
Alun Owen based his script on the Beatles' actual celebrity at
the time, catching them in the delirious early rush of Beatlemania:
eluding rampaging fans, killing time on trains and in hotels,
appearing on a TV broadcast. American director Richard Lester,
influenced by the freestyle French New Wave and British Goon
Show humor, whips up a delightfully upbeat circus of perpetual
motion. From the opening scene of the mop tops rushing through
a train station mobbed by fans, the movie rarely stops for air.
Some of the songs are straightforwardly presented, but others
("Can't Buy Me Love," set to the foursome gamboling
around an empty field) soar with ingenuity. Above all, the Beatles
express their irresistible personalities: droll, deadpan, infectiously
cheeky. Better examples of pure cinematic joy are few and far
between. --Robert Horton
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