It really is a masterpiece! Yeah, you'd think they'd start with this one, especially with it being amazing. It does such a good job at the mania surrounding them, yeah! I'm so glad I got to watch it with you guys and got to add another one to that small list of reactors. Thank you for watching!
Fun Fact: In the song "And I Love Her", the Director of Photography was upset that Richard Lester the Director filmed a pan of Paul singing with one of the lights glaring into the camera lens. Now that is one of the moves a lot of Directors use.
Thank you so much for reacting to this movie. It's so much fun and I've been begging people to do it for years. It's a real gem. I always assumed that people must be avoiding it for copyright reasons, but I'm very glad that someone's doing it. Thanks again!
I think of this as the first movie with music videos. You can see the huge influence with the quick cuts, etc.! That was so new! Lester really took the lead from their music and "Swinging London".
Grandfather's "date" at the casino ("I bet you're a great swimmer") was the actress and model Margaret Nolan (aka "Vicky Kennedy"). She was a "Bond girl" who appeared in "Goldfinger" and Playboy magazine.
So many aspects of this film were unique. Alan Owen's screenplay captured the comedic sensibilities of the era. Dick Lester's direction was groundbreaking, using handheld camera shots and innovative editing. The music and personalities of the Beatles supremely attractive. I saw it on my thirteenth birthday with my father. He enjoyed it almost as much as I did! Still a good romp in 2024.
i'm so happy you chose this film to watch. its a classic, probably the best of the genre. in past r&r movies the performers rarely had speaking roles, were basically guest stars in the film and even elvis always played fictional characters. you'll notice in this film the word "beatles," the band's name is never uttered. but the beatles were playing themselves. richard lester, the director was an american who previously had directed some shorts for the british comedy troupe "the goons." he later directed the beatles' 2nd film "help!" (1965) and in 1966 directed one of my favorite musical comedies "a funny thing happened on the way to the forum." a broadway musical comedy set in ancient rome. he's also known for directing the 2 BEST "musketeer" movies with "the three musketeers" in 1973 and 1974's sequel "the four musketeers." really fun big budget films with all star casts. thanks for the video.
Trying to take care of The Beatles was a lot like herding cats. It can be done but not easily. Fun fact: musician Phil Collins was a child in the audience scenes, who had come with a friend, realized he really liked the Beatles and took drumming lessons. Further fun fact: The film's director, Richard Lester, also directed Superman II. I saw this movie for my 14th birthday in 1964. This year, 2024, is sixty years since the film's release.
Very clean reaction! I loved your impressions of the different dialects, so much fun! The next Beatles movie in line is HELP! (1965). It’s in color and the humor is a lot more wacky and Monty Python-esque, even though Python was not formed as a group until 1969. Another Beatles/Python connection, in addition to the ones you mentioned… The Rutles (1978), the first mockumentary.
I was 6 when the Beatles really broke on the American scene, watched them perform on the "Ed Sullivan Show" (Feb. 9, 1964) My whole family was watching, and my parents actually said nice things about the Beatles and their music ("they're dressed like gentlemen"---they loathed Elvis) When they played "All My Loving", my mom approved and so the Beatles became acceptable music around the house. "A Hard Day's Night" made us all feel we knew them---great movie and full of the characteristic Beatle's humor and irreverence. It was all so much of a relief since our president Kennedy had been brutally gunned down just the previous November---the Beatles broke the mourning period.
"Yellow Submarine" [1968] is a pop art, psychedelic animated film with Beatles music and voice actors playing fantasy versions of The Beatles. It's FANTASTIC. "Pepperland is a cheerful, music-loving paradise under the sea, home to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The land falls under a surprise attack from the music-hating Blue Meanies"
*_Beatlemania!_* Also happens to be *_Very Clean!_* This was an extraordinarily entertaining reaction, review and trivia session all in one! Thanks for your wonderful efforts.
😅 I knew the Beatles and all their names, but it was just which one was which as I'd not seen much of them on screen. I'd only heard their music or seen photos and not needed to know who was who. I wish I'd seen their films earlier, but at least I've started that journey as I loved this one! It's never too late to start watching them. Thank you so much for watching!
Thanks for this, Marty! You really hit on all the points that make the film special. I hope you continue with their next film, "Help!". It's very much of its time.
I saw this when it came out and couldn’t scream because there were parents and others around. My best friend and I came back when no one we knew was there, we sat in the back, watched the movie and SCREAMED our heads off!!!!!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
One of the first interviews they did in America, John was asked what kind of women he likes and he replied, 'My wife'. George gave John a sideways glance and answered, 'John's wife'. Good comedy.
My Mom brought 5 year old me to see this movie upon its release in NYC. We had to sit through it 3 straight times because the screaming was so constant you couldn't hear any dialog. My Mom was none too happy, of course not really understanding the concept of Beatlemania, and the theater manager heard about it, probably a bad day at the office for that fellow. Nobody expected what we witnessed and experienced with The Beatles. While this film is brilliant in "A Day in the Life of The Beatles" sort of way, their next film, HELP, would prove to be just as humorous, but with a much more elaborate plot and storyline, one that again afforded them the opportunities to be smart, clever, and funny, while at the same time being utterly ridiculous. You would enjoy that as well I do believe. Loved watching this with you btw, over the years I have memorized the dialog to this movie and Help, but to watch someone, who can relate so well, watch it for the first time, was a real treat. Thank you!!
Great review. You were the first reviewer I've watched that got all the references and was able to figure out what was going on and anticipate the action. Seriously!
Yes, this absolutely captures the feeling at the time. When this film came out, my friend and I went, sat relatively quiet throughout, and the theater had some muted applause at the end. We stayed for a second show (it was easier then to manage this at our local cinema, as they didn’t clear out the audience, in order to pack in as many showings as possible) and we started screaming at selected times, which got the rest of the audience doing it, and by the end, we were really on our feet and cheering. Looking back now, it was inconsiderate of us, but we were 13 year olds and like everyone we knew, deeply in love with The Beatles.
The Beatles are the greatest band to ever be. I fell in love with them at 5. Beatle Paul is my favorite. As soon as now and then came out I bought the 45
As a teenager myself in the sixties, the Beatles music was a new kind of "Pop" music, and they were good song writers. I got caught up in the Beatlemania, bought every album they put out, though I wasn't the screaming kind of fan.
I was 10-years old when this film was released, and was already a fan. I saw the film at the Fox theater in Venice, California. In those days they ran the film continuously from morning to night, and once you bought a ticket you could stay as long you wanted. I stayed for four showings the first weekend, and then went the next Saturday for another four viewings. I couldn’t get enough. I would go home after movies and put the album on. Beatlemania was real, even for a boy in California. PS: Fantastic reaction to this film. I learned a lot about from you. Thanks!
Beatlemania for sure. You did an absolutely terrific job of putting this reaction together. The mania is similar to reactions to Frank Sinatra at the start of his career, believe it or not Martin and Lewis, and then Elvis. I hate admitting my age, I was nine when this came out and I saw it in the theater five times, I begged my mom to let me go everyday. One of my fave scenes is 'Kenneth Haigh, who has the brief but showy role of Simon Marshall--the amusingly neurotic television executive who tries to get George Harrison to promote his sponsor's "grotty" shirts--was already a distinguished stage actor. He had originated the role of the first "angry young man," Jimmy Porter, in the historic first stage performance (1956) of "Look Back in Anger" by John Osborne, and at the time of filming he was appearing onstage as Caligula. He performed in the movie because of his friendship with screenwriter Alun Owen but declined screen credit, fearing that his reputation as an actor would suffer by his association with a "teen idol" movie'. Also appearing were David Langton star of "Upstairs, Downstairs" in the make up room, Susan Hampshire "The Forsyte Saga" dancing at the club. This is still my favorite album of The Beatles. This is where I became an Anglophile!
Frank Sinatra initially played no special role in Europe, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were very popular, but there is no "Mania" to be found in historiography. Presley was of course a global phenomenon, but unlike the Beatles, he only toured in the USA, in addition to his terrible army engagement in Germany.
The woman reporter who asks Ringo "Are you a mod or a rocker?" was Marianne Stone. She had bit parts in many British films and television series from the late 1940s through to the 1970s. "The 39 Steps" (Kenneth More version, woman behind desk), "Venetian Bird" 1952 (Woman walking by as John Gregson is taking peoples' photos)..... many of the Carry On films, tons more. She is virtually unrecognisable in "A Hard Day's Night" from her earlier film appearances as she had undergone drastic nose surgery. Another classic film that it would be great to see you cover is "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" (1960) Norman Rossington is in that one too. A classic.
Loved watching this!!! The Beatles have been my favorite band since seeing them on Ed Sullivan on 2-9-64. A Hard Day’s Night has been a top favorite film of mine for forever. Never saw The Beatles live, but I sure loved the Beatlemania days! Thanks for posting, and for keeping it very clean. 😘
The exchange between George and the fashion guy is brilliant. The dialects are hilarious. And Victor Spinelli is the best foil for the Beatles. He was in three different films with them.
The babe who's hanging out with Grandpa at the Circe Club is legendary magazine model Margaret Nolan, who would appear in "Goldfinger' the same year as both the first golden girl (during the credits) and Bond's friend "Dink." The grumpy old man on the train with the Beatles would also appear in "Goldfinger" as the man who gives Bond a bar of gold over dinner.
The Hard Days Night LP was the first LP I ever owned. I had the great pleasure of finally seeing this movie on the big screen just a couple of years ago. If you ever get that opportunity, take it.
Director Richard Lester is still alive and very underrated. Besides this and Help, he also directed some of my favorite films including Superman, The Three Musketeers, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, and Robin and Marian. I would love to see an in depth interview with him or a documentary. Oh, the stories he could tell! BTW, he grew up near me in suburban Philadelphia!
Another fun and very clean fact: In this film, they make a point of referring to both of Paul's grandfathers, one of whom lives with his parents. In reality, Paul never knew either of his grandfathers. AND Wilfrid Brambell is YOUNGER than Paul's real life father, let alone grandfather.😉
Thank you so much jazzman! That's a huge compliment, which means a lot, as it means that the work on it shows. Thank you for watching and I'm really happy you've enjoyed it!
Thank you so much TTM, for this and for other comments and replies you've given to others. I did accept them all, but for some reason one or two haven't gone through just yet
I was born in 1966, so I missed out on Beatlemania as it happened, but I still grew up with their music and their films. As a kid, Help was my favorite movie, but Hard Day’s Night has been my favorite for several decades now. Such iconic dialogue, and the group’s on-screen charisma just burns like a sun. Every time I watch it, a different sequence becomes my favorite. This time around, I loved George’s encounter with the ad guy and his assistant. It is such an acerbic smackdown of the complete fakery all that image creating is. It even continues today with online trendsetters, most or all of whom are promoting just those things that the ad people are telling them to.
I'm literally still in the credits, and this reaction is already everything I hoped for. As far as having to mute the music, don't worry! We all know the music, we know the movie by heart, and anyway, you have just enough so that we still get the energy of the songs and how the film interacts with it. Great job. Muffled and cut up is fine.
Thank you so much TTM! This means a lot! I'm so glad this was everything you'd wanted to see. I appreciate you understanding the muting of the music, thank you. It might have been difficult with passing copyright on it if I had kept it, so thought it best. It's great to know that with the editing you can still get a decent grasp on it all though! Also, thank you for the replies you've given to 'other' comments too. I did accept them all, but for some reason one or two haven't gone through just yet. Aha!!! I've just figured out how to approve your username, so you don't get flagged in future! I hope that helps. Have a lovely day, thanks for watching!
Hey Marty I just discovered your channell and I really enjoy it. I love seeing younger people react to alot of movies I grew up with. I was only about 3 years old when Hard days night came out. But I do come from a huge family who loves music and movies from the different decades. Hard days night is one of my favorites because of the music of the Beatles and the British humor, Hard to beat it. I also have there meet the Beatles album from 1964. Keep up the good work.
Just when I thought I had exhausted all The Beatles videos on TH-cam, this pops up. So entertaining (proof I watched ‘til the end… “Beatlemania” and “very clean.”) My Dad saw it in theaters (he was 8) and said he couldn’t hear a thing because of everyone (girls and boys) screaming, as you pointed out. And I’m not gonna lie, I would have been too lol. Tho, when I saw McCartney in concert in 2022 for the first time, I sobbed. Also, I work in TV and find it fascinating control rooms are called galleries across the pond. Learn something new every day. Nice job! I would be interested in seeing you watch ‘Help.’ It’s their “stoner” film and it’s hilarious (many people may not find it “good” but I watch it every time I need to laugh.)
'Help' is obviously a must see...and in a similar vein with Dick Lesters direction (the last Beatle film he directed a year after Hard Days Night)...It's another gem and showcase for Beatle songs and humour based around a story about Ringos ring gemstone ...Just great fun and I read that the Beatles wanted a holiday to break their heavy schedule so the film was shot in places they wanted to holiday in, Austrian skiing and the Bahamas...Incidently the Beatles loved the Goons who both Dick Lester and George Martin had worked with prior to the Beatles so that played a part somewhat in choices of visual and audio selections for early career
Outstanding reaction and review! I was one of many kids in a packed theater when this movie came out, and it was a blast. I even won free tickets with pictures of the Beatles on them in a radio contest. I was 5 or 6 when I discovered them through their record "She Loves You", which lit up pleasure centers in my brain that I'd never known existed. Every time I heard one of their songs after that, it opened up a floodgate of endorphins. "Beatlemania" wasn't just a fad, it was literally an addiction.
The radio contest I won from a station in St. Louis was a bus trip to Chicago with 62 other winners and a ticket to the Beatles concert at old Comiskey Park in 1965. I was only 13 at the time and had to beg my parents to let me go. It was a memorable day, though it was often difficult to hear any music over the 25,000 screaming teenage girls...
Green stamps: they could be adhered to pages in a booklet, and were connected to purchases. After you collected enough, you could bring them to a (store?) and redeem them. I remember our parents bought two plush Siamese cats that way, one for my sister, one for me.
Aha! Thank you Melena. I thought I'd heard about them before, but wasn't too sure whilst watching it. Yeah they're like voucher books. Oh cool! That's so cute! Thank you for sharing and for watching! 🤗
I love The Beatles! They're before my time but I get the hype and I myself think they don't have a bad song. With them it's one great song after another 😊
I thoroughly enjoyed your reaction. I especially liked the trivia section and from the start I was hoping you would enjoy the movie resulting in your increased love for the Beatles and that you'd have a greater appreciation for the phenomenon of Beatlemania. I also was excited to hear an English person's take on the old jokes. I myself am a great lover of British humor, but the I don't feel as able to relate to the "oldies" of British humor. You seemed to laugh quite a lot. I appreciate the one-liners etc. but mostly appreciate the film as a way to spend time with the Beatles! Yep, the guys you see in the film are pretty close to "real Life" and certainly consistent with the chaps in the many, many hours of Beatles interview footage. Finally, my favorite laugh out loud bit is when "granddad" is in the police station carrying on in his Irish Republican way. I'm sure it was still a bit of a hot button subject at the time, but making sport of it was hilarious. On Ringo, I seem to remember reading that his walk about bits were reminiscent of Chaplin's lovable tramp. I don't know if it was intentional or later commented on by critics as just a result of Ringo's comedic timing and manner.
I saw it when it first came out in 1964 at a time when you bought a ticket to the cinema and could stay there all day if you liked the film and wanted to see it again. I did that with Goldfinger which came out at the same time. However for Hard Days Night the queues were so long that you were thrown out of the cinema after the film finished and couldn't watch it for a second time... Great review you spotted a lot of interesting points I hadn't spotted before; thanks ;)
Yes, their fans definitely carried on like that. One of the cameramen had to go to the dentist because the intensity of the screams caused the fillings in his teeth to come loose, or at least make them very painful. Great job noticing the instrumental music resembling the Brubeck recording, I noticed that years ago and love it. Some of the instrumental music was actually available on the US version of this soundtrack, including the track you mentioned. I would say this is the high mark of their films, IMO. The others are at least one viewing, you may enjoy them, as well. Except maybe Magical Mystery Tour lol
Random thoughts: The "I fought the war" man is the same actor who played SIr Edward the double-agent in Morecambe & WIse's Intelligence Men. The "black cab" and "labourers' tent" scenes are now hard to disassociate from the opening scenes of The Rutles. That dialectical word grotty seems to have arisen simultaneously in the South-West and the North-East (consider the story of how Reg Presley came by his band-name). Swingball in pubs - in the '80s, on the Isle of Wight, I seem to recall. Whar's the short end of the "straw"? The jazz version of the title tune - hidden classic. (Phil Collins is one of the boys?) In the '60s there were crazy fans like that for all groups, even Freddie & The Dreamers...even The NIce (try their live radio 1 broadcast if you dis!)
This film was described at the time as the Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals, and it's a work that's unparalleled in many ways. If you want to see this sort of thing done badly, watch Cuckoo Patrol featuring the Beatles' contemporaries Freddie and the Dreamers. In fact, alongside earlier films from Elvis Presley and Cliff Richard, several musical acts got in on this movie bandwagon. The Dave Clark Five with Catch Us if You Can and Gerry and the Pacemakers with Ferry 'Cross the Mersey, which features a blink and you'll miss it appearance from Elisabeth Sladen, who would go on to play Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who. It also features a notorious sixties DJ whose initials were JS. Victor Spinetti, who played the floor manager, would later appear in the Beatles films Help! and Magical Mystery Tour, as well as providing voice work on Yellow Submarine. He would also collaborate with John Lennon on a stage version of Lennon's book In His Own Write.
Oh my god, you are so correct. The (many) teenage rock & roll movies of the 50s and 60s were almost always beyond atrocious. Cheaply done, flimsy scripts. This was a completely new teaching. Freddie And The Dreamers were one of the most cringiest bands that inittially came in The Beatles wake. It wasn't all just The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The Who!
Very clean Beatlemania. I became a fan of the Beatles in 1964 and here we are in 2024. WOW! That cracked me up when i saw the name of your patron Nameless Human Being. I'm glad i wasn't drinking something when i read it. P.S. The Beatles will still be talked about a hundred years from now. I'm only assuming people will still be in existence that far into the future, but if there are, they will. Help, i need somebody......Help, Not just anybody.......Help, i need someone....... Help.
A very clean review... I saw AHDN in the cinema in '64, and yes, we did scream, a bit, though doing so felt definitely surreal, seeing as they weren't actually there...Later that year, after their introductory tour of the US, the Beatles did their second major tour of the UK and I saw them live, at last. And there was serious screaming. This so-called Beatlemania was I believe a significant socio-psycho-sexual phenomenon, which felt to us young girls like the champagne cork finally being let out of the bottle, as girls everywhere - and quite a lot of guys - dropped their inhibitions, trained into them from childhood, to act ladylike and be 'good' girls, so as not to be confused with girls of loose morals. Throughout the rest of the sixties, triggered by the tremendous impact of the Beatles, many of those stiff old behavioural codes began to slip away, and people in general began to act more naturally, for example behaving more spontaneously and responding individually rather than following a fixed set of social rules, and, led by the Beatles, no longer feeling ashamed of and trying to disguise their native regional accents. It's hard to explain it all in just a few words, but there was far more to it than just a rather annoying 'pop' phenomenon involving a lot of idiotic teenage girls, as some people assume. The Beatles admittedly looked a bit tired and over it all in that late 1964 performance, perhaps not surprisingly, after all that year's experiences, with non-stop touring and promoting the film. I suspect they were barely playing their instruments, since no-one could hear them through the dense wall of sound coming from the audience. This along with more dangerous aspects of Beatlemania was the reason they gave up touring and all live performances, and became a studio band, where they could finally hear what they were playing, and continue to develop their craft, in earnest, resulting in some of the best and most enduring music the world had ever heard.
Love this film, thanks Marty! I would also recommend "Help!" and the animated "Yellow Submarine" although they used voice actors for the latter it includes several songs and is quite a trip. Help! is a lot of fun with a crazy plot and some interesting characters, like a comedic Bond film.
Beatlemania is very clean. 🎼😶🎶 My first reaction of yours, and it’s a great one. The extensive comments, trivia, and other footage makes it seem nearly a documentary unto itself. Your overall presentation and editing choices are splendid. I hope to see more examples. Reactors have become too numerous, but really good ones are a delightful and rare find.
I went to see this in the theater and it was so packed that I had to squeeze into the front row. The line to get into the theater went way down the block. Girls inside screamed at the screen even though The Beatles, of course, could not hear them. 😂 Fun, crazy days.
The Maysles' brothers documentary "First U.S. Visit" is an excellent companion to this movie, since it shows the real-life of the Beatles at that time, which was so similar to to their portrayal in this film. Check it out, even if you don't share it here.
Completely agree. That one is hard to get, not even sure if it's on You Tube. I believe they're planning on re-releasing it next year with a bunch of extra footage.
Fab-ulous reaction - very clean! I was15, still in high school, living in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania during the summer of '64. The local cinema was semi-palatial (there were no cineplexes then). I snuck into the theater through the rear exit with my friend on a Saturday afternoon. The movie was a huge hit everywhere - we loved it !
(2:51) Paul _has_ to emphasise early on that (Wilfred Bramble) is 'very CLEAN' because the British public up to that point, have _only_ known him as a 'DIRTY old man'.
@@Ian-lx1iz Ahh, thank you anyway Ian, I very much appreciate the info either way. It helps to let everyone know who hasn't seen the trivia too! Thank you so much for watching the video too, I hope you're well
Nice reaction :) One of my earliest memories is of seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. I grew up during Beatlemania ;) I can't tell you how many times I've watched this movie and it always makes me smile. Yes, the girls really did scream like that during their concerts, at times being so loud that the Beatles couldn't hear themselves play. I appreciate your review and insights into the movie and your inclusion of the trivia at the end
HI Marty, this is the first video of Yours I came upon, watched, & really enjoyed (BTW BEATLEMANIA), as I had just finished watching "A Hard Day's Night" for my First time, & I too really liked it.😊 I've loved The Beatles for 40+ years & wanted to see this movie, & just found it on MAX. I'm in my 50s, but wasn't quite born yet when this film was in Theaters in 1964, & tho I've wanted to see it since I was a teen into my twenties, Streaming Svcs & TH-cam did Not exist yet! 😄 I Hope to find their 2nd movie Help! on one of the streaming svcs I subscribe to.
Well, if you want to see a fusion of Monty Python and The Beatles, you need to see The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash. It’s a mockumentary of a fake band based on The Beatles. It’s written by Eric Idle with music by him and Neil Innes, and a couple of Monty Python actors are in it as well as some 70s SNL actors and musicians… George Harrison plays a reporter briefly. As I understand it, John and Yoko weren’t sure how they felt about it until they saw it and then they loved it.
Yes, yes, yes, the fans were like this. A wild time. I was only 9 at the time, but I became just as crazy about them. Glad you watched this. Such a fun movie. A major hit!
The Beatles were in my parents generation and as a kid I had a terrible attitude towards older music. But because of my Grandmother I did have a love of older movies. So one day when I was 13 hard days night was on TCM so I had nothing better to do so I watched it. I love this movie and it helped me appreciate past generations of music. I now listen to music from any time and all different genres. I even listen to my kids music 🙂
LOL! When I first saw you recognize Brambell I thought "Wait till he hears how clean he is." 🤣🤣 Over here, across the pond we all knew Jeremy Lloyd as one of the regulars on the NBC sketch comedy show of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In during its 1969-1970 season. :) I had no idea he was the creator of "Are You Being Served"...that's awesome! Mr. Humphreys, are you free? 😂😂 The TV producer in this film with the hairy sweater returns in their next movie of "Help!" as a mad scientist. I hope you get to watch it. It is my favorite of their movies.
I would love a HELP! reaction. Just a little teaser: HELP! was was the inspiration for MTV ;) Sir Richard Lester has also done the Four Musketeer movies with Michael York, Oliver Reed and Faye Dunaway... The founders of MTV called him "the father of MTV" to which he later replied he wanted to see the paternity test...
The Beatles / Python connection is... George Harrison produced their movies and some of Terry Gilliam's early stuff also. There are 4 other Beatles movies in order - "Help" attempts to reproduce the vibe and charm of Hard Days, so... you just watched a better version of the same film. Next is "Magical Mystery Tour", a train wreck of a movie with the best soundtrack of all their movies... get the album. Next up "Yellow Submarine", an animated fantasy about taking a ride to Pepperland in a Yellow Submarine. Fun n charming pop psychedelic adventure with a great soundtrack, well worth a watch. Finally "Let It Be" a documentary about the making of the "Let It Be" album and is also worth the viewing for any Beatles Fan.
This was my favorite movie for many, many years. Great reaction 👍 Please continue with The Beatles' other films. I'm subscribing to your reactions, Marty; although they're not on the level of Beatlemania, they are very clean 😉😜
The Beatles were fans of Monty Python. George helped with the financing of some of their films. Both the Beatles and Monty Python were fans of an earlier BBC Radio show The Goon Show in the 50's. It's all very clean!
i think he is supposed to be pauls grandfather cause he seems very concerned throughout about losing him, and they never say otherwise and at the start he's talking to the old man and sitting with him.
Norman Rossington who played their manager was a very well known actor at the time. He was a regular in the early Carry On Films, and appeared in many big sixties films. He was the only actor to be in a film with The Beatles and Elvis Presley.
Nice, Marty. Pattie Boyd and Jenny Boyd were celebrity models, so they weren't nobodies. Pattie inspired various George Harrison love songs, including the hit "Something" (in the way she moves), but also Eric Clapton's hits "Layla" and "Wonderful Tonight." So she was quite the muse. Jenny married Mick Fleetwood, founder of Fleetwood Mac. None of these marriages worked out, however. You asked, so: I strongly recommend the Beatles' follow-up movie "Help!," also directed by Richard Lester. "Yellow Submarine" is an imaginative and fun animated film, but the Beatles had little to do with it. Can't recommend "Magical Mystery Tour" which lacked a script and a director. Re: the accents. In 1980, I talked to a BBC director who recalled that when Hollywood talkies arrived in Britain at the end of the 1920s, people were hearing Americans' accents for the first time. They DID have a very hard time understanding the American accents, particularly in the gangster movies. "But we learned fast," he told me. "We HAD to." If you're going to watch just one Connery Bond movie, the best one is "Goldfinger," but I don't think any of his Bond films are bad. #MoviesWithMarty @MoviesWithMarty
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For all the popularity of the Beatles very few reactors do Hard Days Night. It truly is a masterpiece in capturing the phenomenon of Beatlemania.
It really is a masterpiece! Yeah, you'd think they'd start with this one, especially with it being amazing. It does such a good job at the mania surrounding them, yeah!
I'm so glad I got to watch it with you guys and got to add another one to that small list of reactors.
Thank you for watching!
"Help!" has an actual Plot and is in Colour! It's sort of the Beatles meet James Bond!
Help! is an actual fly-on-the-wall view of Monty Python being conceived.
Please do!!!❤❤❤😍😍
Fun Fact: In the song "And I Love Her", the Director of Photography was upset that Richard Lester the Director filmed a pan of Paul singing with one of the lights glaring into the camera lens. Now that is one of the moves a lot of Directors use.
Thank you so much for reacting to this movie. It's so much fun and I've been begging people to do it for years. It's a real gem. I always assumed that people must be avoiding it for copyright reasons, but I'm very glad that someone's doing it. Thanks again!
Wilfrid Brambell who played Paul's grandfather was 10 years younger than McCartney's father.
I think of this as the first movie with music videos. You can see the huge influence with the quick cuts, etc.! That was so new! Lester really took the lead from their music and "Swinging London".
Grandfather's "date" at the casino ("I bet you're a great swimmer") was the actress and model Margaret Nolan (aka "Vicky Kennedy"). She was a "Bond girl" who appeared in "Goldfinger" and Playboy magazine.
The man holding the tape measure was The Beatles' actual tailor. They got him the part as a thank you to him.
So many aspects of this film were unique. Alan Owen's screenplay captured the comedic sensibilities of the era. Dick Lester's direction was groundbreaking, using handheld camera shots and innovative editing. The music and personalities of the Beatles supremely attractive. I saw it on my thirteenth birthday with my father. He enjoyed it almost as much as I did! Still a good romp in 2024.
i'm so happy you chose this film to watch. its a classic, probably the best of the genre. in past r&r movies the performers rarely had speaking roles, were basically guest stars in the film and even elvis always played fictional characters. you'll notice in this film the word "beatles," the band's name is never uttered. but the beatles were playing themselves.
richard lester, the director was an american who previously had directed some shorts for the british comedy troupe "the goons." he later directed the beatles' 2nd film "help!" (1965) and in 1966 directed one of my favorite musical comedies "a funny thing happened on the way to the forum." a broadway musical comedy set in ancient rome. he's also known for directing the 2 BEST "musketeer" movies with "the three musketeers" in 1973 and 1974's sequel "the four musketeers." really fun big budget films with all star casts. thanks for the video.
Trying to take care of The Beatles was a lot like herding cats. It can be done but not easily.
Fun fact: musician Phil Collins was a child in the audience scenes, who had come with a friend, realized he really liked the Beatles and took drumming lessons.
Further fun fact: The film's director, Richard Lester, also directed Superman II.
I saw this movie for my 14th birthday in 1964.
This year, 2024, is sixty years since the film's release.
Very clean reaction! I loved your impressions of the different dialects, so much fun! The next Beatles movie in line is HELP! (1965). It’s in color and the humor is a lot more wacky and Monty Python-esque, even though Python was not formed as a group until 1969.
Another Beatles/Python connection, in addition to the ones you mentioned… The Rutles (1978), the first mockumentary.
I was 6 when the Beatles really broke on the American scene, watched them perform on the "Ed Sullivan Show" (Feb. 9, 1964) My whole family was watching, and my parents actually said nice things about the Beatles and their music ("they're dressed like gentlemen"---they loathed Elvis) When they played "All My Loving", my mom approved and so the Beatles became acceptable music around the house. "A Hard Day's Night" made us all feel we knew them---great movie and full of the characteristic Beatle's humor and irreverence. It was all so much of a relief since our president Kennedy had been brutally gunned down just the previous November---the Beatles broke the mourning period.
"Yellow Submarine" [1968] is a pop art, psychedelic animated film with Beatles music and voice actors playing fantasy versions of The Beatles. It's FANTASTIC.
"Pepperland is a cheerful, music-loving paradise under the sea, home to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The land falls under a surprise attack from the music-hating Blue Meanies"
*_Beatlemania!_* Also happens to be *_Very Clean!_* This was an extraordinarily entertaining reaction, review and trivia session all in one! Thanks for your wonderful efforts.
iT'S astounding to me whenever someone does not know all the Beatles...i guess i just raised my kids properly
😅 I knew the Beatles and all their names, but it was just which one was which as I'd not seen much of them on screen. I'd only heard their music or seen photos and not needed to know who was who. I wish I'd seen their films earlier, but at least I've started that journey as I loved this one! It's never too late to start watching them.
Thank you so much for watching!
Thanks for this, Marty! You really hit on all the points that make the film special. I hope you continue with their next film, "Help!". It's very much of its time.
I saw this when it came out and couldn’t scream because there were parents and others around. My best friend and I came back when no one we knew was there, we sat in the back, watched the movie and SCREAMED our heads off!!!!!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
One of the first interviews they did in America, John was asked what kind of women he likes and he replied, 'My wife'. George gave John a sideways glance and answered, 'John's wife'. Good comedy.
My Mom brought 5 year old me to see this movie upon its release in NYC. We had to sit through it 3 straight times because the screaming was so constant you couldn't hear any dialog. My Mom was none too happy, of course not really understanding the concept of Beatlemania, and the theater manager heard about it, probably a bad day at the office for that fellow. Nobody expected what we witnessed and experienced with The Beatles. While this film is brilliant in "A Day in the Life of The Beatles" sort of way, their next film, HELP, would prove to be just as humorous, but with a much more elaborate plot and storyline, one that again afforded them the opportunities to be smart, clever, and funny, while at the same time being utterly ridiculous. You would enjoy that as well I do believe. Loved watching this with you btw, over the years I have memorized the dialog to this movie and Help, but to watch someone, who can relate so well, watch it for the first time, was a real treat. Thank you!!
Great review. You were the first reviewer I've watched that got all the references and was able to figure out what was going on and anticipate the action. Seriously!
What a great reaction and editing of the film. I really enjoyed this especially your commentary at the end. And now you know all their names!
Yes, this absolutely captures the feeling at the time. When this film came out, my friend and I went, sat relatively quiet throughout, and the theater had some muted applause at the end. We stayed for a second show (it was easier then to manage this at our local cinema, as they didn’t clear out the audience, in order to pack in as many showings as possible) and we started screaming at selected times, which got the rest of the audience doing it, and by the end, we were really on our feet and cheering. Looking back now, it was inconsiderate of us, but we were 13 year olds and like everyone we knew, deeply in love with The Beatles.
The Beatles are the greatest band to ever be. I fell in love with them at 5. Beatle Paul is my favorite. As soon as now and then came out I bought the 45
As a teenager myself in the sixties, the Beatles music was a new kind of "Pop" music, and they were good song writers. I got caught up in the Beatlemania, bought every album they put out, though I wasn't the screaming kind of fan.
I was 10-years old when this film was released, and was already a fan. I saw the film at the Fox theater in Venice, California. In those days they ran the film continuously from morning to night, and once you bought a ticket you could stay as long you wanted. I stayed for four showings the first weekend, and then went the next Saturday for another four viewings. I couldn’t get enough. I would go home after movies and put the album on. Beatlemania was real, even for a boy in California.
PS: Fantastic reaction to this film. I learned a lot about from you. Thanks!
Beatlemania for sure. You did an absolutely terrific job of putting this reaction together. The mania is similar to reactions to Frank Sinatra at the start of his career, believe it or not Martin and Lewis, and then Elvis. I hate admitting my age, I was nine when this came out and I saw it in the theater five times, I begged my mom to let me go everyday. One of my fave scenes is 'Kenneth Haigh, who has the brief but showy role of Simon Marshall--the amusingly neurotic television executive who tries to get George Harrison to promote his sponsor's "grotty" shirts--was already a distinguished stage actor. He had originated the role of the first "angry young man," Jimmy Porter, in the historic first stage performance (1956) of "Look Back in Anger" by John Osborne, and at the time of filming he was appearing onstage as Caligula. He performed in the movie because of his friendship with screenwriter Alun Owen but declined screen credit, fearing that his reputation as an actor would suffer by his association with a "teen idol" movie'. Also appearing were David Langton star of "Upstairs, Downstairs" in the make up room, Susan Hampshire "The Forsyte Saga" dancing at the club. This is still my favorite album of The Beatles. This is where I became an Anglophile!
Frank Sinatra initially played no special role in Europe, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were very popular, but there is no "Mania" to be found in historiography. Presley was of course a global phenomenon, but unlike the Beatles, he only toured in the USA, in addition to his terrible army engagement in Germany.
time bandits blew my mind as a kid
The woman reporter who asks Ringo "Are you a mod or a rocker?" was Marianne Stone. She had bit parts in many British films and television series from the late 1940s through to the 1970s. "The 39 Steps" (Kenneth More version, woman behind desk), "Venetian Bird" 1952 (Woman walking by as John Gregson is taking peoples' photos)..... many of the Carry On films, tons more. She is virtually unrecognisable in "A Hard Day's Night" from her earlier film appearances as she had undergone drastic nose surgery.
Another classic film that it would be great to see you cover is "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" (1960) Norman Rossington is in that one too. A classic.
Loved watching this!!! The Beatles have been my favorite band since seeing them on Ed Sullivan on 2-9-64. A Hard Day’s Night has been a top favorite film of mine for forever. Never saw The Beatles live, but I sure loved the Beatlemania days! Thanks for posting, and for keeping it very clean. 😘
My favorite contemporary review of the movie said it's "The Citizen Came of jukebox musicals." It is the best of their films. Beatlemania.
The exchange between George and the fashion guy is brilliant. The dialects are hilarious.
And Victor Spinelli is the best foil for the Beatles. He was in three different films with them.
The stuffy old gentleman on the train was played by Richard Vernon, 39 years old at the time of filming. Wilfred Bramble was 52.
The babe who's hanging out with Grandpa at the Circe Club is legendary magazine model Margaret Nolan, who would appear in "Goldfinger' the same year as both the first golden girl (during the credits) and Bond's friend "Dink." The grumpy old man on the train with the Beatles would also appear in "Goldfinger" as the man who gives Bond a bar of gold over dinner.
The Hard Days Night LP was the first LP I ever owned. I had the great pleasure of finally seeing this movie on the big screen just a couple of years ago. If you ever get that opportunity, take it.
Director Richard Lester is still alive and very underrated. Besides this and Help, he also directed some of my favorite films including Superman, The Three Musketeers, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, and Robin and Marian. I would love to see an in depth interview with him or a documentary. Oh, the stories he could tell! BTW, he grew up near me in suburban Philadelphia!
Another fun and very clean fact:
In this film, they make a point of referring to both of Paul's grandfathers, one of whom lives with his parents. In reality, Paul never knew either of his grandfathers. AND Wilfrid Brambell is YOUNGER than Paul's real life father, let alone grandfather.😉
By far the best editing job (for TH-cam) I've seen for this film!
Completely agree.
Thank you so much jazzman! That's a huge compliment, which means a lot, as it means that the work on it shows. Thank you for watching and I'm really happy you've enjoyed it!
Thank you so much TTM, for this and for other comments and replies you've given to others. I did accept them all, but for some reason one or two haven't gone through just yet
I was born in 1966, so I missed out on Beatlemania as it happened, but I still grew up with their music and their films. As a kid, Help was my favorite movie, but Hard Day’s Night has been my favorite for several decades now. Such iconic dialogue, and the group’s on-screen charisma just burns like a sun. Every time I watch it, a different sequence becomes my favorite. This time around, I loved George’s encounter with the ad guy and his assistant. It is such an acerbic smackdown of the complete fakery all that image creating is. It even continues today with online trendsetters, most or all of whom are promoting just those things that the ad people are telling them to.
Exactly, influencers 60s style.
I'm literally still in the credits, and this reaction is already everything I hoped for. As far as having to mute the music, don't worry! We all know the music, we know the movie by heart, and anyway, you have just enough so that we still get the energy of the songs and how the film interacts with it. Great job. Muffled and cut up is fine.
Thank you so much TTM! This means a lot! I'm so glad this was everything you'd wanted to see.
I appreciate you understanding the muting of the music, thank you. It might have been difficult with passing copyright on it if I had kept it, so thought it best. It's great to know that with the editing you can still get a decent grasp on it all though!
Also, thank you for the replies you've given to 'other' comments too. I did accept them all, but for some reason one or two haven't gone through just yet.
Aha!!! I've just figured out how to approve your username, so you don't get flagged in future! I hope that helps. Have a lovely day, thanks for watching!
The Beatles first single, Love Me Do and the first James Bond film, Dr No were released on the same day in October 1962.
Hey Marty I just discovered your channell and I really enjoy it. I love seeing younger people react to alot of movies I grew up with. I was only about 3 years old when Hard days night came out. But I do come from a huge family who loves music and movies from the different decades. Hard days night is one of my favorites because of the music of the Beatles and the British humor, Hard to beat it. I also have there meet the Beatles album from 1964. Keep up the good work.
Fantastic reaction!
What a fun movie.
Fun Fact: Phill Collins was a teenager in the audience in the filmed "TV Concert" in the end, but he wasn't in any of the audience scenes in the film.
Did you watch the video? He talks about that in this very video, lol
Just when I thought I had exhausted all The Beatles videos on TH-cam, this pops up. So entertaining (proof I watched ‘til the end… “Beatlemania” and “very clean.”) My Dad saw it in theaters (he was 8) and said he couldn’t hear a thing because of everyone (girls and boys) screaming, as you pointed out. And I’m not gonna lie, I would have been too lol. Tho, when I saw McCartney in concert in 2022 for the first time, I sobbed. Also, I work in TV and find it fascinating control rooms are called galleries across the pond. Learn something new every day. Nice job! I would be interested in seeing you watch ‘Help.’ It’s their “stoner” film and it’s hilarious (many people may not find it “good” but I watch it every time I need to laugh.)
6:28--the blonde lady is Pattie Boyd, who was later married to George.
And then married to Eric Clapton!
'Help' is obviously a must see...and in a similar vein with Dick Lesters direction (the last Beatle film he directed a year after Hard Days Night)...It's another gem and showcase for Beatle songs and humour based around a story about Ringos ring gemstone ...Just great fun and I read that the Beatles wanted a holiday to break their heavy schedule so the film was shot in places they wanted to holiday in, Austrian skiing and the Bahamas...Incidently the Beatles loved the Goons who both Dick Lester and George Martin had worked with prior to the Beatles so that played a part somewhat in choices of visual and audio selections for early career
Outstanding reaction and review! I was one of many kids in a packed theater when this movie came out, and it was a blast. I even won free tickets with pictures of the Beatles on them in a radio contest. I was 5 or 6 when I discovered them through their record "She Loves You", which lit up pleasure centers in my brain that I'd never known existed. Every time I heard one of their songs after that, it opened up a floodgate of endorphins. "Beatlemania" wasn't just a fad, it was literally an addiction.
The radio contest I won from a station in St. Louis was a bus trip to Chicago with 62 other winners and a ticket to the Beatles concert at old Comiskey Park in 1965. I was only 13 at the time and had to beg my parents to let me go. It was a memorable day, though it was often difficult to hear any music over the 25,000 screaming teenage girls...
@@flarrfan I would've given my entire comic book collection for that!
Green stamps: they could be adhered to pages in a booklet, and were connected to purchases. After you collected enough, you could bring them to a (store?) and redeem them. I remember our parents bought two plush Siamese cats that way, one for my sister, one for me.
Aha! Thank you Melena. I thought I'd heard about them before, but wasn't too sure whilst watching it. Yeah they're like voucher books.
Oh cool! That's so cute! Thank you for sharing and for watching! 🤗
I love The Beatles! They're before my time but I get the hype and I myself think they don't have a bad song. With them it's one great song after another 😊
I thoroughly enjoyed your reaction. I especially liked the trivia section and from the start I was hoping you would enjoy the movie resulting in your increased love for the Beatles and that you'd have a greater appreciation for the phenomenon of Beatlemania. I also was excited to hear an English person's take on the old jokes. I myself am a great lover of British humor, but the I don't feel as able to relate to the "oldies" of British humor. You seemed to laugh quite a lot. I appreciate the one-liners etc. but mostly appreciate the film as a way to spend time with the Beatles! Yep, the guys you see in the film are pretty close to "real Life" and certainly consistent with the chaps in the many, many hours of Beatles interview footage. Finally, my favorite laugh out loud bit is when "granddad" is in the police station carrying on in his Irish Republican way. I'm sure it was still a bit of a hot button subject at the time, but making sport of it was hilarious. On Ringo, I seem to remember reading that his walk about bits were reminiscent of Chaplin's lovable tramp. I don't know if it was intentional or later commented on by critics as just a result of Ringo's comedic timing and manner.
The way i love this movie. It's so funny and they are just great.
I saw it when it first came out in 1964 at a time when you bought a ticket to the cinema and could stay there all day if you liked the film and wanted to see it again. I did that with Goldfinger which came out at the same time. However for Hard Days Night the queues were so long that you were thrown out of the cinema after the film finished and couldn't watch it for a second time... Great review you spotted a lot of interesting points I hadn't spotted before; thanks ;)
If you can find it, you should watch their second film”Help!”
Help!! is also fabulous Marty. You would love it 😊❤.
Thank you Jane! I'm hoping to get around to watching it sometime, it looks amazing. I can't wait, as I think I will too!
Great review Marty 😊❤. Love this movie. Its an absolute gem 😍.
Yes, their fans definitely carried on like that. One of the cameramen had to go to the dentist because the intensity of the screams caused the fillings in his teeth to come loose, or at least make them very painful.
Great job noticing the instrumental music resembling the Brubeck recording, I noticed that years ago and love it. Some of the instrumental music was actually available on the US version of this soundtrack, including the track you mentioned.
I would say this is the high mark of their films, IMO. The others are at least one viewing, you may enjoy them, as well. Except maybe Magical Mystery Tour lol
Beatlemania very clean , great reaction
Thank you so much for watching and for letting me know too. I hope you're well! I'm so glad you liked it
ageless film can probably qoute this in my sleep everything beatles related never fails in my book
Random thoughts:
The "I fought the war" man is the same actor who played SIr Edward the double-agent in Morecambe & WIse's Intelligence Men.
The "black cab" and "labourers' tent" scenes are now hard to disassociate from the opening scenes of The Rutles.
That dialectical word grotty seems to have arisen simultaneously in the South-West and the North-East (consider the story of how Reg Presley came by his band-name).
Swingball in pubs - in the '80s, on the Isle of Wight, I seem to recall.
Whar's the short end of the "straw"?
The jazz version of the title tune - hidden classic. (Phil Collins is one of the boys?)
In the '60s there were crazy fans like that for all groups, even Freddie & The Dreamers...even The NIce (try their live radio 1 broadcast if you dis!)
Thanks so much for this "very clean" bit of "Beatlemania," Marty.
6:34...The girl on the train who repeats 'Prisoners' is Patti Boyd who married George Harrison...and then Eric Clapton...and then...etc.
This film was described at the time as the Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals, and it's a work that's unparalleled in many ways. If you want to see this sort of thing done badly, watch Cuckoo Patrol featuring the Beatles' contemporaries Freddie and the Dreamers.
In fact, alongside earlier films from Elvis Presley and Cliff Richard, several musical acts got in on this movie bandwagon. The Dave Clark Five with Catch Us if You Can and Gerry and the Pacemakers with Ferry 'Cross the Mersey, which features a blink and you'll miss it appearance from Elisabeth Sladen, who would go on to play Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who. It also features a notorious sixties DJ whose initials were JS.
Victor Spinetti, who played the floor manager, would later appear in the Beatles films Help! and Magical Mystery Tour, as well as providing voice work on Yellow Submarine. He would also collaborate with John Lennon on a stage version of Lennon's book In His Own Write.
Oh my god, you are so correct. The (many) teenage rock & roll movies of the 50s and 60s were almost always beyond atrocious. Cheaply done, flimsy scripts. This was a completely new teaching. Freddie And The Dreamers were one of the most cringiest bands that inittially came in The Beatles wake. It wasn't all just The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The Who!
Very clean Beatlemania. I became a fan of the Beatles in 1964 and here we are in 2024. WOW! That cracked me up when i saw the name of your patron Nameless Human Being. I'm glad i wasn't drinking something when i read it. P.S. The Beatles will still be talked about a hundred years from now. I'm only assuming people will still be in existence that far into the future, but if there are, they will. Help, i need somebody......Help, Not just anybody.......Help, i need someone....... Help.
A very clean review...
I saw AHDN in the cinema in '64, and yes, we did scream, a bit, though doing so felt definitely surreal, seeing as they weren't actually there...Later that year, after their introductory tour of the US, the Beatles did their second major tour of the UK and I saw them live, at last. And there was serious screaming. This so-called Beatlemania was I believe a significant socio-psycho-sexual phenomenon, which felt to us young girls like the champagne cork finally being let out of the bottle, as girls everywhere - and quite a lot of guys - dropped their inhibitions, trained into them from childhood, to act ladylike and be 'good' girls, so as not to be confused with girls of loose morals.
Throughout the rest of the sixties, triggered by the tremendous impact of the Beatles, many of those stiff old behavioural codes began to slip away, and people in general began to act more naturally, for example behaving more spontaneously and responding individually rather than following a fixed set of social rules, and, led by the Beatles, no longer feeling ashamed of and trying to disguise their native regional accents. It's hard to explain it all in just a few words, but there was far more to it than just a rather annoying 'pop' phenomenon involving a lot of idiotic teenage girls, as some people assume.
The Beatles admittedly looked a bit tired and over it all in that late 1964 performance, perhaps not surprisingly, after all that year's experiences, with non-stop touring and promoting the film. I suspect they were barely playing their instruments, since no-one could hear them through the dense wall of sound coming from the audience. This along with more dangerous aspects of Beatlemania was the reason they gave up touring and all live performances, and became a studio band, where they could finally hear what they were playing, and continue to develop their craft, in earnest, resulting in some of the best and most enduring music the world had ever heard.
That was fantastic, thank you for sharing such a personal (and accurate) remembrance of the period.
By the time this film was madethe Beatles had already skyrocketed. A Hard Days Night just rocket further.
The girls were that noisy and crazy.
Love this film, thanks Marty! I would also recommend "Help!" and the animated "Yellow Submarine" although they used voice actors for the latter it includes several songs and is quite a trip. Help! is a lot of fun with a crazy plot and some interesting characters, like a comedic Bond film.
Beatlemania is very clean. 🎼😶🎶
My first reaction of yours, and it’s a great one. The extensive comments, trivia, and other footage makes it seem nearly a documentary unto itself. Your overall presentation and editing choices are splendid. I hope to see more examples. Reactors have become too numerous, but really good ones are a delightful and rare find.
I went to see this in the theater and it was so packed that I had to squeeze into the front row. The line to get into the theater went way down the block. Girls inside screamed at the screen even though The Beatles, of course, could not hear them. 😂 Fun, crazy days.
The Maysles' brothers documentary "First U.S. Visit" is an excellent companion to this movie, since it shows the real-life of the Beatles at that time, which was so similar to to their portrayal in this film. Check it out, even if you don't share it here.
Completely agree. That one is hard to get, not even sure if it's on You Tube. I believe they're planning on re-releasing it next year with a bunch of extra footage.
Harold!.......Harold!.
Ya get it?.
😊
Haha! "You dirttty old man!" "HARROLLLLD"
".... What, Dad?!" 😅🤣
Such a great show! I do love Steptoe and Son. Thanks for watching Wesley!
One of a member of the concert audience was a very young Phil Collins.
Fab-ulous reaction - very clean! I was15, still in high school, living in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania during the summer of '64. The local cinema was semi-palatial (there were no cineplexes then). I snuck into the theater through the rear exit with my friend on a Saturday afternoon. The movie was a huge hit everywhere - we loved it !
Lester's The Knack and How to Get It is really good!
My favorite non-Beatle film he did, by far, is his incredible version of "The Three Musketeers" (1973). The definitive version (in sound).
(2:51) Paul _has_ to emphasise early on that (Wilfred Bramble) is 'very CLEAN' because the British public up to that point, have _only_ known him as a 'DIRTY old man'.
Whoops! - Yeah, you pick up on this at the end.
@@Ian-lx1iz Ahh, thank you anyway Ian, I very much appreciate the info either way. It helps to let everyone know who hasn't seen the trivia too!
Thank you so much for watching the video too, I hope you're well
Thanks.. very clean.
Nice reaction :) One of my earliest memories is of seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. I grew up during Beatlemania ;) I can't tell you how many times I've watched this movie and it always makes me smile. Yes, the girls really did scream like that during their concerts, at times being so loud that the Beatles couldn't hear themselves play. I appreciate your review and insights into the movie and your inclusion of the trivia at the end
HI Marty, this is the first video of Yours I came upon, watched, & really enjoyed (BTW BEATLEMANIA), as I had just finished watching "A Hard Day's Night" for my First time, & I too really liked it.😊 I've loved The Beatles for 40+ years & wanted to see this movie, & just found it on MAX. I'm in my 50s, but wasn't quite born yet when this film was in Theaters in 1964, & tho I've wanted to see it since I was a teen into my twenties, Streaming Svcs & TH-cam did Not exist yet! 😄 I Hope to find their 2nd movie Help! on one of the streaming svcs I subscribe to.
Well, if you want to see a fusion of Monty Python and The Beatles, you need to see The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash. It’s a mockumentary of a fake band based on The Beatles. It’s written by Eric Idle with music by him and Neil Innes, and a couple of Monty Python actors are in it as well as some 70s SNL actors and musicians… George Harrison plays a reporter briefly. As I understand it, John and Yoko weren’t sure how they felt about it until they saw it and then they loved it.
Yes, yes, yes, the fans were like this. A wild time. I was only 9 at the time, but I became just as crazy about them. Glad you watched this. Such a fun movie. A major hit!
Excellent reaction and dive into the nuts & bolts of the film! So much fun!
This movie was the inspiration of The Monkees TV show 2 years later.
Great Reaction
Very clean and nicely done!
The Beatles were in my parents generation and as a kid I had a terrible attitude towards older music. But because of my Grandmother I did have a love of older movies. So one day when I was 13 hard days night was on TCM so I had nothing better to do so I watched it. I love this movie and it helped me appreciate past generations of music. I now listen to music from any time and all different genres. I even listen to my kids music 🙂
Hi , the 12 string guitar john lennon plays in if i fell , was just found in an attic after 50 years , and sold for $2.9 million !
LOL! When I first saw you recognize Brambell I thought "Wait till he hears how clean he is." 🤣🤣 Over here, across the pond we all knew Jeremy Lloyd as one of the regulars on the NBC sketch comedy show of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In during its 1969-1970 season. :) I had no idea he was the creator of "Are You Being Served"...that's awesome! Mr. Humphreys, are you free? 😂😂 The TV producer in this film with the hairy sweater returns in their next movie of "Help!" as a mad scientist. I hope you get to watch it. It is my favorite of their movies.
Very nice job!
Thank you so much Philip! Thank you for watching too
I would love a HELP! reaction. Just a little teaser: HELP! was was the inspiration for MTV ;)
Sir Richard Lester has also done the Four Musketeer movies with Michael York, Oliver Reed and Faye Dunaway... The founders of MTV called him "the father of MTV" to which he later replied he wanted to see the paternity test...
The Beatles / Python connection is... George Harrison produced their movies and some of Terry Gilliam's early stuff also. There are 4 other Beatles movies in order - "Help" attempts to reproduce the vibe and charm of Hard Days, so... you just watched a better version of the same film. Next is "Magical Mystery Tour", a train wreck of a movie with the best soundtrack of all their movies... get the album. Next up "Yellow Submarine", an animated fantasy about taking a ride to Pepperland in a Yellow Submarine. Fun n charming pop psychedelic adventure with a great soundtrack, well worth a watch. Finally "Let It Be" a documentary about the making of the "Let It Be" album and is also worth the viewing for any Beatles Fan.
This was my favorite movie for many, many years. Great reaction 👍 Please continue with The Beatles' other films. I'm subscribing to your reactions, Marty; although they're not on the level of Beatlemania, they are very clean 😉😜
Writer Alun Owen was originally from Liverpool.
Thank you for that, handy to know! Thank you for watching too
@@MoviesWithMarty He was chosen because it was believed he could better relate to Liverpudlian.
The Beatles were fans of Monty Python. George helped with the financing of some of their films. Both the Beatles and Monty Python were fans of an earlier BBC Radio show The Goon Show in the 50's. It's all very clean!
Peter Sellers came out of The Goon Show. It is, I believe where he got his start.
@@MsAppassionata Yes, you are right. Spike Milligan also was in the Goon Show. He had a cameo in Life Of Brian.
The blonde girl on the train is Patti Boyd, the future Mrs George Harison.
i think he is supposed to be pauls grandfather cause he seems very concerned throughout about losing him, and they never say otherwise and at the start he's talking to the old man and sitting with him.
Beatlemania was real and it was very clean. ;)
This movie is where George met his and Eric Clapton's first wife.
Norman Rossington who played their manager was a very well known actor at the time. He was a regular in the early Carry On Films, and appeared in many big sixties films. He was the only actor to be in a film with The Beatles and Elvis Presley.
Nice, Marty.
Pattie Boyd and Jenny Boyd were celebrity models, so they weren't nobodies. Pattie inspired various George Harrison love songs, including the hit "Something" (in the way she moves), but also Eric Clapton's hits "Layla" and "Wonderful Tonight." So she was quite the muse. Jenny married Mick Fleetwood, founder of Fleetwood Mac. None of these marriages worked out, however.
You asked, so: I strongly recommend the Beatles' follow-up movie "Help!," also directed by Richard Lester.
"Yellow Submarine" is an imaginative and fun animated film, but the Beatles had little to do with it.
Can't recommend "Magical Mystery Tour" which lacked a script and a director.
Re: the accents. In 1980, I talked to a BBC director who recalled that when Hollywood talkies arrived in Britain at the end of the 1920s, people were hearing Americans' accents for the first time. They DID have a very hard time understanding the American accents, particularly in the gangster movies. "But we learned fast," he told me. "We HAD to."
If you're going to watch just one Connery Bond movie, the best one is "Goldfinger," but I don't think any of his Bond films are bad. #MoviesWithMarty @MoviesWithMarty