A Hard Day's Night

TCM's Dave Karger introduces A Hard Day's Night, 1964.

Introduction and comments following A Hard Day’s Night, 1964, from Dennis Miller and friend Dana Carvey.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Hard Day’s Night, 1964.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Hard Day’s Night, 1964.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Hard Day’s Night, 1964.

Hotel bathroom hijinks, John Lennon in the tub and George Harrison shaving at the mirror with assistant manager Shake (John Junkin), their discourse on the topic not quite explained, but germane in Alun Owen’s nutty original screenplay, and manager Norm (Norman Rossington) hunting John, Richard Lester directing, in the Beatle’s A Hard Day’s Night, 1964.

The whole picture’s been working up to this, the first song for the TV show, John Lennon’s vocal and harmony from Paul McCartney and George Harrison, on the Lennon-McCartney composition, shot at the since-demolished Scala Theatre, Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia, London, director Richard Lester providing maybe more fans than Beatles, in A Hard Day’s Night, 1964.

Manager Norm (Rossington) leads the lads into a London news conference for a series of wacky solo interviews and editing, then slipping into the famous Scala theater where Shake (John Junkin) and grandfather (Wilfrid Bramble) are having a drink, in Richard Lester's A Hard Day's Night, 1964.

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Paul (McCartney) has taken pity on grandfather (Wilfrid Brambell) whom he's had to imprison on the train so his mates (John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr) join them for a hit tune written by John and Paul, early in director Richard Lester's Beatles' movie A Hard Day's Night, 1964.