A Hard Day's Night (1964)
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.
- Richard Lester
- John D. Merriman
- Rita Davison
- Alun Owen
Rating: 7.345/10 by 675 users
Alternative Title:
The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night - US
Beatles - Os Reis do iê iê iê - BR
Os Reis do iê iê iê - BR
一夜狂歡 - HK
The Beatles - A Hard Days Night - DE
Os 4 Cabeleiras do Após-Calypso - PT
The Beatles - Perný den - CZ
La noche de un día agitado - CL
Anochecer de un día agitado - AR
¡Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Paul, John, George y Ringo! - MX
一夜狂欢 - CN
Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
Français
Deutsch
English
Runtime: 01 hour 28 minutes
Budget: $560,000
Revenue: $11,000,000
Plot Keyword: adolescence, great britain, culture clash, pop culture, press conference, musical, mockumentary, behind the scenes, fame, police chase, older man younger woman relationship, shaving, swinging 60s, railway station, psychotronic, generation gap, television director
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's director. What ensues are various enjoyable escapades interspersed with some dapper performances from the band. The thing is riddled with charisma - the band are clearly having a whale of a time, Bramble looks like startled rabbit - as only he could - and the scenes with the screaming fans contribute well to the overall sense of adulation in which this band were held. It makes no pretence to be a film of great cinematographic worth - which is just as well 'cos it isn't - but as 90 minutes of almost fly-on-the wall fun and games, it's well worth a watch.
