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Meet the Beatles! Just one month after they exploded onto the U.S. scene with their Ed Sullivan Show appearance, John, Paul, George, and Ringo began working on a project that would bring their revolutionary talent to the big screen. A Hard Day’s Night, in which the bandmates play cheeky comic versions of themselves, captured the astonishing moment when they officially became the singular, irreverent idols of their generation and changed music forever. Directed with raucous, anything-goes verve by Richard Lester and featuring a slew of iconic pop anthems, including the title track, “Can’t Buy Me Love, ” “I Should Have Known Better, ” and “If I Fell, ” A Hard Day’s Night, which reconceived the movie musical and exerted an incalculable influence on the music video, is one of the most deliriously entertaining movies of all time.

Stylish spoof of American rock and roll movies, in which young people go wild over Dixieland jazz over the objection of their parents. Includes performances of several American rock musicians (78 min.).

A lively, good-natured spoof of "Beatlemania" portraying a frantic 36 hours in the lives of the rock group.

Harassed by their manager and Paul's grandpa, the Beatles embark from Liverpool by train for a London TV show.

An anti-Castro British mercenary sees his rich ex-lover in hot 1958 Havana. Directed by Richard Lester.
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Ringo's life is imperiled by an ancient sacrificial ring stuck on his famous finger. The ring makes him a target of a group of demented oriental mystics, who chase the boys from London to the Swiss Alps to the Bahamas.

Captures all the fun, excitement, and unforgettable music of John, Paul, George, and Ringo at the height of Beatlemania. The Beatles perform their songs and look for adventure, all while avoiding hordes of screaming fans. Packed with all-time Beatle favorites, including A Hard Day's Night; All My Loving; Can't Buy Me Love; I Should Have Known Better; She Loves You; Tell Me Why; and more.

A country girl comes to London and meets three men, one of whom has a way with women.
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Goodbody is an inept Army officer who must lead his battalion out of England into the Egyptian desert to construct a cricket field. Musketeer Gripwell, his orderly, is a cynic caught in the crossfires of war. Thisis a surreal collage of battle footage and fast-moving one liners lampooningthe absurdity of war.

"What Lieutenant Goodbody lacks in experience, he's desperately trying to make up for in enthusiasm. And when he's ordered to build a cricket playing field in the wastelands of North Africa, 100 miles behind enemy lines, he's determined to succeed... even if it kills most of his men. Abandoned by his superiors, betrayed by his inferiors and finally captured by Nazis, it may take more than his unrelenting optimism to win the day... like some hilariously good luck!"--Container.

A tiny country persuades the Americans and Soviets that they're starting a space program, when they really just want some money for new plumbing.

British experts try to disarm bombs on a captain's ocean liner while a manhunt takes place on land.
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A bomb expert must find a way to dismantle seven bombs before a terrorist blows up a passenger ship.

An English mayor bans rock-n-roll and jazz music from his town, and a pair of rebellious teenagers put on a music festival.

Ringo possesses a sacrificial ring, which he cannot remove from his finger. As a result, the Beatles are chased from London to the Austrian Alps to the Bahamas by religious cult members, a mad scientists and the London police.

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• Magical mystery tour.
• The first U.S. visit.
• You can't do that! The making of A hard day's night.

Featured are a series of comic sketches about a post-nuclear London: a girl is seventeen months pregnant, a father turns into a parrot, a man becomes a chest of drawers, and another man becomes a bed sitting room.

An unhappily married socialite woman is trying to get through to a recently divorced doctor, who in his own words just wants to feel something.