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starring: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambelldirected by: Richard Lester
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780788827594
Format: Black & White, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 0788827596
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Release Date: September 24, 2002
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 13444
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 11, 1964
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Description:
The strikingly original classic captures all the fun, excitement, and unforgettable music of John, Paul, George, and Ringo at the height of Beatlemania! It's a wildly irreverent day in the life of the world's great rock 'n' roll band! As they prepare for a big TV appearance, the Beatles perform their songs, look for adventure ... and try in vain to keep Paul's mischief-making grandfather out of trouble ... 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've Known Better,' 'She Loves You,' and 'Tell Me Why,' director Richard Lester's groundbreaking motion picture collaboration with the 'Fab Four' is itself a treasured piece of rock history that remains influential to this day!
Amazon.com essential video:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - nostalgic and fun
The reviewer who claims that this film was originally made in 4:3 format is quite wrong. Perhaps he means the original video, which was certainly cut to fit a standard TV. But this good DVD is correctly formatted, and nothing has been cut off from the top or bottom.
That having been said, this is a very comprehensive set. The 36' documentary with reminiscences of the film's crew is fun and enlightening. One comes away with the feeling, as if we couldn't guess from the film itself, that ... Read More
Rating:  - Still rocking the kids
I bought this for my 16 year old daughter who has discovered the Beatles. She just loves their music and I am getting to enjoy them again also. It is great to be able to share my youth with todays youth.
Rating: - Great Movie!
The Beatles are wonderful in this movie. It is fast paced and very funny. One has to pay attention to the dialogue to get the jokes and they are gems. The extras are good too. A lot of fun!
Rating: - Still great after all these years
I bought this DVD as I am phasing out my VHS tapes. I had the same issue in VHS, though this has interviews with many people that make the extras neat. My favorite was George Martin discussing the boys individually as writers and the individual songs. The film stands up well to 40+ years of time.
Rating:  - Will Miramax and MPI please stop tampering with our memories?
The other night I decided to pull out HDN and watch it for the first time in several years. I have both the MPI and Miramax DVDs so I reached for my good old MPI edition and popped it in. The 1.33:1 aspect ratio always bugged me a bit but I thought "so what" and decided to watch it because I love the opening "I'll Cry Instead" prologue on that version. When the movie got to the "And I Love Her" sequence I started, for the first time, to notice that the mix was different than the video tape I'd seen years ... Read More
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