A Hard Day's Night (film)

A Hard Day's Night
A Hard Day's Night
	UK theatrical release poster
Directed by	Richard Lester
Screenplay by	Alun Owen
Produced by	Walter Shenson
Starring	The Beatles; Wilfrid Brambell;
Cinematography	Gilbert Taylor
Edited by	John Jympson
Music by	Musical Director:; George Martin; Songs:; Lennon–McCartney George Harrison
Production; companies	Walter Shenson Films; Proscenium Films;
Distributed by	United Artists
Release dates	6 July 1964 (Pavilion Theatre); 7 July 1964;
Running time	87 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom; United States
Language	English
Budget	£189,000; (~US$529,000)
Box office	$11 million

A Hard Day's Night is a 1964 musical comedy film starring the English rock band the Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr—during the height of Beatlemania. Directed by Richard Lester, it was written by Alun Owen and originally released by United Artists. The film portrays 36 hours in the lives of the group as they prepare for a television performance.

The film was a financial and critical success and was nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay. Forty years after its release, Time magazine rated it as one of the 100 all-time great films.^[3] In 1997, British critic Leslie Halliwell described it as a "comic fantasia with music; an enormous commercial success with the director trying every cinematic gag in the book" and awarded it a full four stars.^[4] The film is credited as being one of the most influential of all musical films, inspiring the Monkees' television show and pop music videos, and various other low-budget musical film vehicles starring British pop groups, such as the Gerry and the Pacemakers film Ferry Cross the Mersey and John Boorman's vehicle for The Dave Clark Five, Catch Us If You Can.

In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked it the 88th greatest British film of the 20th century.^[5]

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^ "A Hard Day's Night (1964)". Archived from the original on 29 December 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
^ ^a ^b Alexander Walker, Hollywood, England, Stein and Day, 1974 p. 241
^ Corliss, Richard (12 February 2005). "All-Time 100 Movies". Time. Archived from the original on 15 July 2010. Retrieved 7 July 2010.
^ Halliwell, Leslie (1997). Halliwell's Film & Video Guide. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-00-638779-9.
^ British Film Institute - Top 100 British Films Archived 12 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine (1999). Retrieved 27 October 2017

[BFI-2] "A Hard Day's Night (1964)". Archived from the original on 29 December 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2019.

[walker-3] Alexander Walker, Hollywood, England, Stein and Day, 1974 p. 241

[All-time_100_Movies-4] Corliss, Richard (12 February 2005). "All-Time 100 Movies". Time. Archived from the original on 15 July 2010. Retrieved 7 July 2010.

[Halliwell-5] Halliwell, Leslie (1997). Halliwell's Film & Video Guide. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-00-638779-9.

[6] British Film Institute - Top 100 British Films Archived 12 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine (1999). Retrieved 27 October 2017

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