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A Hard Day's Night (film)

A Hard Day's Night
UK theatrical release poster
Directed byRichard Lester
Screenplay byAlun Owen
Produced byWalter Shenson
Starring
CinematographyGilbert Taylor
Edited byJohn Jympson
Music byMusical Director:
George Martin
Songs:
Lennon–McCartney
George Harrison[a]
Production
companies
  • Walter Shenson Films
  • Proscenium Films
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release dates
  • 6 July 1964 (1964-07-06) (Pavilion Theatre)
  • 10 July 1964 (1964-07-10) (United Kingdom)
  • 12 August 1964 (1964-08-12) (United States)
Running time
87 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States[1]
LanguageEnglish
Budget£189,000[2]
(~US$529,000)
Box office$11 million[2]

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.[3] The film portrays 36 hours in the lives of the group as they prepare for a television performance.

The film was a commercial 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 greatest films.[4] 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.[5] 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 (1965).

In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked it the 88th-greatest British film of the 20th century.[6]


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  1. ^ "A Hard Day's Night (1964)". Archived from the original on 29 December 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  2. ^ a b Alexander Walker, Hollywood, England, Stein and Day, 1974 p. 241
  3. ^ "A Hard Day's Night". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
  4. ^ Corliss, Richard (12 February 2005). "All-Time 100 Movies". Time. Archived from the original on 15 July 2010. Retrieved 7 July 2010.
  5. ^ Halliwell, Leslie (1997). Halliwell's Film & Video Guide. HarperCollins. 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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