5 Star Rating ***
Help!, was the first colour film starring The Beatles, sadly, even with its crazy plot, great music and exotic locations, it failed to recapture the magic of A Hard Days Night!
Directed by Richard Lester
Directed by Richard Lester
Produced by Walter Shenson
Written by Charles Wood, Marc Behm
Story by Marc Behm
Starring
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
Ringo Starr
Leo McKern
Eleanor Bron
John Bluthal
Patrick Cargill
Victor Spinetti
Roy Kinnear
Mal Evans
Music
The Beatles
Ken Thorne
George Martin
Cinematography - David Watkin
Edited by John Victor Smith
Production Company - Walter Shenson Films, Subafilms
Distributed by United Artists
Release date 29 July 1965
Running time 96 minutes
Box office $12,066,667
Songs
- "Help!"
- "You're Going to Lose That Girl"
- "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
- "Ticket to Ride"
- "I Need You"
- "The Night Before"
- "Another Girl"
- "She's a Woman" (heard in the background, on a tape machine, and underground in the Salisbury Plain scene)
- "A Hard Day's Night" (played by Indian band and as an instrumental)
- "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" (played by a band during the bike-riding scene)
- "You Can't Do That" (played as an instrumental during the Austrian Alps sequence)