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A Hard Day's Night

  • 7.5 /10

  • 720

  • 98%

Plot

Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.

Cast

John Lennon as John
John Lennon

as John

Paul McCartney as Paul
George Harrison as George
George Harrison

as George

Ringo Starr as Ringo
Ringo Starr

as Ringo

Wilfrid Brambell as Grandfather
Wilfrid Brambell

as Grandfather

John Junkin as Shake
John Junkin

as Shake

Victor Spinetti as T.V. Director
Victor Spinetti

as T.V. Director

Anna Quayle as Millie
Anna Quayle

as Millie

Deryck Guyler as Police Inspector
Deryck Guyler

as Police Inspector

Movie Facts

Rated

  • G

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • July 7, 1964

Production Companies

  • Proscenium Films

  • Walter Shenson Films

Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

Spoken Language

  • Deutsch

  • Français

  • English

Budget

  • $560,000.00

Revenue

  • $11,000,000.00

Runtime

  • 1.47 hrs

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Reviews

Who says there were no pop videos in the 1960s? This is an example of one, two, three - indeed, possibly five - all loosely connected via a daftly enjoyable storyline featuring old "Steptoe" himself - Mr. Wilfrid Bramble. It has a plot, not that it remotely matters: the fab four are heading to London to do a television show and poor old Ringo gets separated - much to the chagrin of the programme'…