Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies: A Hard Day's Night
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From this Saturday at 2am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 7am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day , it’s
the described movie A Hard Day’s Night from 1964.
A Hard Day's Night is a 1964 British musical comedy film starring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr —during the height of Beatlemania.
It was written by Alun Owen and originally released by United Artists.
The film portrays 36 hours in the lives of the group.
The film was a financial and critical success. Forty years after its release, Time magazine rated it as one of the all-time great 100 films.
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.
The film is credited as being one of the most influential of all musical films, inspiring numerous spy films, the Monkees ' television show and pop music videos.
In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked it the 88th greatest British film of the 20th century.
Directed by: Richard Lester.
Produced by: Walter Shenson.
Screenplay by: Alun Owen.
Starring: The Beatles, and Wilfrid Brambell.
Music by: Musical Director: George Martin, Songs: Lennon–McCartney.
Cinematography: Gilbert Taylor.
Edited by: John Jympson.
Production company: Walter Shenson Films and Proscenium Films.
Distributed by: United Artists.
Release date: 6 July 1964 (UK), 11 August 1964 (US).
Running time: 87 minutes.
Country: United Kingdom and United States.
Language: English.
Budget: £189,000.
Box office: $12,299,668.
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