A Hard Day's Night (1964) Movie Reaction | FIRST TIME WATCHING | The Beatles FIRST Film

[@HeidiDenoble]

For all the popularity of the Beatles very few reactors do Hard Days Night. It truly is a masterpiece in capturing the phenomenon of Beatlemania.

[@MoviesWithMarty]

It really is a masterpiece! Yeah, you'd think they'd start with this one, especially with it being amazing. It does such a good job at the mania surrounding them, yeah! I'm so glad I got to watch it with you guys and got to add another one to that small list of reactors. Thank you for watching!

[@ChuckDrennen]

Beatle performances were notoriously short approximately 20 minutes and yes, the girls screamed the whole time.

[@jamesalexander5623]

"Help!" has an actual Plot and is in Colour! It's sort of the Beatles meet James Bond!

[@montauk6]

Help! is an actual fly-on-the-wall view of Monty Python being conceived.

[@conniegaylord5206]

Please do!!!❤❤❤😍😍

[@mindfulyourlife9247]

iT'S astounding to me whenever someone does not know all the Beatles...i guess i just raised my kids properly

[@MoviesWithMarty]

😅 I knew the Beatles and all their names, but it was just which one was which as I'd not seen much of them on screen. I'd only heard their music or seen photos and not needed to know who was who. I wish I'd seen their films earlier, but at least I've started that journey as I loved this one! It's never too late to start watching them. Thank you so much for watching!

[@cyrilmauras4247]

Fun Fact: In the song "And I Love Her", the Director of Photography was upset that Richard Lester the Director filmed a pan of Paul singing with one of the lights glaring into the camera lens. Now that is one of the moves a lot of Directors use.

[@ThatGingerNate]

Another fun fact, a United Artists executive reviewing the shots saw that and though it was a mistake, so he phoned producer Walter Shenson and asked if he was aware of it, Shenson replied it had taken them all morning to get it like that.

[@brandonflorida1092]

Thank you so much for reacting to this movie. It's so much fun and I've been begging people to do it for years. It's a real gem. I always assumed that people must be avoiding it for copyright reasons, but I'm very glad that someone's doing it. Thanks again!

[@etherealtb6021]

I think of this as the first movie with music videos. You can see the huge influence with the quick cuts, etc.! That was so new! Lester really took the lead from their music and "Swinging London".

[@blehkelekwet9642]

Wilfrid Brambell who played Paul's grandfather was 10 years younger than McCartney's father.

[@staralotzka5586]

This movie is a masterpiece it was my late wife's favorite Beetle movie she loved it

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

I was 6 when the Beatles really broke on the American scene, watched them perform on the "Ed Sullivan Show" (Feb. 9, 1964) My whole family was watching, and my parents actually said nice things about the Beatles and their music ("they're dressed like gentlemen"---they loathed Elvis) When they played "All My Loving", my mom approved and so the Beatles became acceptable music around the house. "A Hard Day's Night" made us all feel we knew them---great movie and full of the characteristic Beatle's humor and irreverence. It was all so much of a relief since our president Kennedy had been brutally gunned down just the previous November---the Beatles broke the mourning period.

[@stlmopoet]

My favorite contemporary review of the movie said it's "The Citizen Came of jukebox musicals." It is the best of their films. Beatlemania.

[@jeffmartin1026]

The man holding the tape measure was The Beatles' actual tailor. They got him the part as a thank you to him.

[@JaySpangler]

Very clean reaction! I loved your impressions of the different dialects, so much fun! The next Beatles movie in line is HELP! (1965). It’s in color and the humor is a lot more wacky and Monty Python-esque, even though Python was not formed as a group until 1969. Another Beatles/Python connection, in addition to the ones you mentioned… The Rutles (1978), the first mockumentary.

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

Grandfather's "date" at the casino ("I bet you're a great swimmer") was the actress and model Margaret Nolan (aka "Vicky Kennedy"). She was a "Bond girl" who appeared in "Goldfinger" and Playboy magazine.

[@AlanRogers250]

Trying to take care of The Beatles was a lot like herding cats. It can be done but not easily. Fun fact: musician Phil Collins was a child in the audience scenes, who had come with a friend, realized he really liked the Beatles and took drumming lessons. Further fun fact: The film's director, Richard Lester, also directed Superman II. I saw this movie for my 14th birthday in 1964. This year, 2024, is sixty years since the film's release.

[@glen1ster]

6:28--the blonde lady is Pattie Boyd, who was later married to George.

[@michelepaccione8806]

And then married to Eric Clapton!

[@papalaz4444244]

"Yellow Submarine" [1968] is a pop art, psychedelic animated film with Beatles music and voice actors playing fantasy versions of The Beatles. It's FANTASTIC. "Pepperland is a cheerful, music-loving paradise under the sea, home to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The land falls under a surprise attack from the music-hating Blue Meanies"

[@TTM9691]

I'm literally still in the credits, and this reaction is already everything I hoped for. As far as having to mute the music, don't worry! We all know the music, we know the movie by heart, and anyway, you have just enough so that we still get the energy of the songs and how the film interacts with it. Great job. Muffled and cut up is fine.

[@MoviesWithMarty]

Thank you so much TTM! This means a lot! I'm so glad this was everything you'd wanted to see. I appreciate you understanding the muting of the music, thank you. It might have been difficult with passing copyright on it if I had kept it, so thought it best. It's great to know that with the editing you can still get a decent grasp on it all though! Also, thank you for the replies you've given to 'other' comments too. I did accept them all, but for some reason one or two haven't gone through just yet. Aha!!! I've just figured out how to approve your username, so you don't get flagged in future! I hope that helps. Have a lovely day, thanks for watching!

[@Dej24601]

Yes, this absolutely captures the feeling at the time. When this film came out, my friend and I went, sat relatively quiet throughout, and the theater had some muted applause at the end. We stayed for a second show (it was easier then to manage this at our local cinema, as they didn’t clear out the audience, in order to pack in as many showings as possible) and we started screaming at selected times, which got the rest of the audience doing it, and by the end, we were really on our feet and cheering. Looking back now, it was inconsiderate of us, but we were 13 year olds and like everyone we knew, deeply in love with The Beatles.

[@Hernal03]

*_Beatlemania!_* Also happens to be *_Very Clean!_* This was an extraordinarily entertaining reaction, review and trivia session all in one! Thanks for your wonderful efforts.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

i'm so happy you chose this film to watch. its a classic, probably the best of the genre. in past r&r movies the performers rarely had speaking roles, were basically guest stars in the film and even elvis always played fictional characters. you'll notice in this film the word "beatles," the band's name is never uttered. but the beatles were playing themselves. richard lester, the director was an american who previously had directed some shorts for the british comedy troupe "the goons." he later directed the beatles' 2nd film "help!" (1965) and in 1966 directed one of my favorite musical comedies "a funny thing happened on the way to the forum." a broadway musical comedy set in ancient rome. he's also known for directing the 2 BEST "musketeer" movies with "the three musketeers" in 1973 and 1974's sequel "the four musketeers." really fun big budget films with all star casts. thanks for the video.

[@qguru5533]

I actually saw an interview of Ringo recounting the scene down by the canal and he confirmed that he had been out all night clubbing. He said he was dreadfully hungover. He felt just awful, so he really looked the part of a dejected and sad man. I was eight years old when this movie came to my town in N.W. Ohio, U.S.A. and I begged my mom to let me go to see it that evening. She relented on the condition that I bathe and wear the new clothes that she had just purchased for my return to school the following Monday. So, you see, I was very clean. And furthermore, Beatlemania! Your movie reactions are the best! Thank you so much for your hard work. Gary

[@RobWayland]

I wasn't planning to subscribe to another reaction channel, but just happened to search for reactions to A Hard Day's Night and yours was one that came up and I chose to watch it pretty much at random. I have to say I enjoyed this enormously. Particularly the trivia / fact second half. Excellent reaction. Please do Help! Some have suggested skipping Magical Mystery Tour but I think you'd enjoy it.

[@threethymes]

What a great reaction and editing of the film. I really enjoyed this especially your commentary at the end. And now you know all their names!

[@throughmyeyes...]

My Mom brought 5 year old me to see this movie upon its release in NYC. We had to sit through it 3 straight times because the screaming was so constant you couldn't hear any dialog. My Mom was none too happy, of course not really understanding the concept of Beatlemania, and the theater manager heard about it, probably a bad day at the office for that fellow. Nobody expected what we witnessed and experienced with The Beatles. While this film is brilliant in "A Day in the Life of The Beatles" sort of way, their next film, HELP, would prove to be just as humorous, but with a much more elaborate plot and storyline, one that again afforded them the opportunities to be smart, clever, and funny, while at the same time being utterly ridiculous. You would enjoy that as well I do believe. Loved watching this with you btw, over the years I have memorized the dialog to this movie and Help, but to watch someone, who can relate so well, watch it for the first time, was a real treat. Thank you!!

[@marlasotherchannel9847]

Beatlemania for sure. You did an absolutely terrific job of putting this reaction together. The mania is similar to reactions to Frank Sinatra at the start of his career, believe it or not Martin and Lewis, and then Elvis. I hate admitting my age, I was nine when this came out and I saw it in the theater five times, I begged my mom to let me go everyday. One of my fave scenes is 'Kenneth Haigh, who has the brief but showy role of Simon Marshall--the amusingly neurotic television executive who tries to get George Harrison to promote his sponsor's "grotty" shirts--was already a distinguished stage actor. He had originated the role of the first "angry young man," Jimmy Porter, in the historic first stage performance (1956) of "Look Back in Anger" by John Osborne, and at the time of filming he was appearing onstage as Caligula. He performed in the movie because of his friendship with screenwriter Alun Owen but declined screen credit, fearing that his reputation as an actor would suffer by his association with a "teen idol" movie'. Also appearing were David Langton star of "Upstairs, Downstairs" in the make up room, Susan Hampshire "The Forsyte Saga" dancing at the club. This is still my favorite album of The Beatles. This is where I became an Anglophile!

[@braudabo]

Frank Sinatra initially played no special role in Europe, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were very popular, but there is no "Mania" to be found in historiography. Presley was of course a global phenomenon, but unlike the Beatles, he only toured in the USA, in addition to his terrible army engagement in Germany.

[@jnagarya519]

The running around in the feild goes back to the "Running, Jumping, Standing Still" film by Peter Sellers.

[@Schteve59]

The stuffy old gentleman on the train was played by Richard Vernon, 39 years old at the time of filming. Wilfred Bramble was 52.

[@1953jazzman]

By far the best editing job (for KZbin) I've seen for this film!

[@TTM9691]

Completely agree.

[@MoviesWithMarty]

Thank you so much jazzman! That's a huge compliment, which means a lot, as it means that the work on it shows. Thank you for watching and I'm really happy you've enjoyed it!

[@MoviesWithMarty]

Thank you so much TTM, for this and for other comments and replies you've given to others. I did accept them all, but for some reason one or two haven't gone through just yet

[@opheliabelleu8025]

Thanks for this, Marty! You really hit on all the points that make the film special. I hope you continue with their next film, "Help!". It's very much of its time.

[@Kieop]

Great review. You were the first reviewer I've watched that got all the references and was able to figure out what was going on and anticipate the action. Seriously!

[@michaelwilber774]

The Beatles are the greatest band to ever be. I fell in love with them at 5. Beatle Paul is my favorite. As soon as now and then came out I bought the 45

[@awcward1971]

A very clean and deservedly thorough take on the film that brought Beatlemania to the world: “A Hard Day’s Night” - “the Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals.”

[@neilmurray7330]

The Beatles first single, Love Me Do and the first James Bond film, Dr No were released on the same day in October 1962.

[@leisastalnaker3790]

What a fun movie.

[@cyrilmauras4247]

As a teenager myself in the sixties, the Beatles music was a new kind of "Pop" music, and they were good song writers. I got caught up in the Beatlemania, bought every album they put out, though I wasn't the screaming kind of fan.

[@beatmet2355]

The exchange between George and the fashion guy is brilliant. The dialects are hilarious. And Victor Spinelli is the best foil for the Beatles. He was in three different films with them.

[@punchkitty007]

Fantastic reaction!

[@jamesdrynan]

So many aspects of this film were unique. Alan Owen's screenplay captured the comedic sensibilities of the era. Dick Lester's direction was groundbreaking, using handheld camera shots and innovative editing. The music and personalities of the Beatles supremely attractive. I saw it on my thirteenth birthday with my father. He enjoyed it almost as much as I did! Still a good romp in 2024.

[@illstreamthat]

One of the first interviews they did in America, John was asked what kind of women he likes and he replied, 'My wife'. George gave John a sideways glance and answered, 'John's wife'. Good comedy.

[@circusbrains]

time bandits blew my mind as a kid

[@davidmacias741]

Hey Marty I just discovered your channell and I really enjoy it. I love seeing younger people react to alot of movies I grew up with. I was only about 3 years old when Hard days night came out. But I do come from a huge family who loves music and movies from the different decades. Hard days night is one of my favorites because of the music of the Beatles and the British humor, Hard to beat it. I also have there meet the Beatles album from 1964. Keep up the good work.

[@illstreamthat]

21:38 George Harrison was friends with Eric Idle of Monty Python and George created 'Handmade Films' with a business partner to release 'Life of Brian' after every studio they took it to declined it...George liked the script and wanted to see it made and mortgaged his house in order to finance it.

[@AlexMartinez-ce7gp]

One of a member of the concert audience was a very young Phil Collins.

[@porflepopnecker4376]

Outstanding reaction and review! I was one of many kids in a packed theater when this movie came out, and it was a blast. I even won free tickets with pictures of the Beatles on them in a radio contest. I was 5 or 6 when I discovered them through their record "She Loves You", which lit up pleasure centers in my brain that I'd never known existed. Every time I heard one of their songs after that, it opened up a floodgate of endorphins. "Beatlemania" wasn't just a fad, it was literally an addiction.

[@flarrfan]

The radio contest I won from a station in St. Louis was a bus trip to Chicago with 62 other winners and a ticket to the Beatles concert at old Comiskey Park in 1965. I was only 13 at the time and had to beg my parents to let me go. It was a memorable day, though it was often difficult to hear any music over the 25,000 screaming teenage girls...

[@porflepopnecker4376]

@@flarrfan I would've given my entire comic book collection for that!

[@reinacarbetta388]

Just when I thought I had exhausted all The Beatles videos on KZbin, this pops up. So entertaining (proof I watched ‘til the end… “Beatlemania” and “very clean.”) My Dad saw it in theaters (he was 8) and said he couldn’t hear a thing because of everyone (girls and boys) screaming, as you pointed out. And I’m not gonna lie, I would have been too lol. Tho, when I saw McCartney in concert in 2022 for the first time, I sobbed. Also, I work in TV and find it fascinating control rooms are called galleries across the pond. Learn something new every day. Nice job! I would be interested in seeing you watch ‘Help.’ It’s their “stoner” film and it’s hilarious (many people may not find it “good” but I watch it every time I need to laugh.)

[@davidcarter5038]

01:27 That tetrahedral container was made by a company called TetraPak who are a giant these days. In the 60s you could buy orange juice the same way - as kids, we'd buy them frozen, bite the corner off the waxed paper carton and drink it ice cold as it melted. 08:55 Now they're in the guards van,where the luggage &c is stored, they'll have access to their instruments - they're on their way to London for a show. 45:32 In the 60s, there were two british airlines - BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) for long haul and BEA (British European Airways) who operate this helicopter.

[@im-gi2pg]

I saw this when it came out and couldn’t scream because there were parents and others around. My best friend and I came back when no one we knew was there, we sat in the back, watched the movie and SCREAMED our heads off!!!!!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Dej24601]

Very Clean! 🎶

[@MoviesWithMarty]

Thank you so much for watching Dej!

[@janewatkins9801]

Great review Marty 😊❤. Love this movie. Its an absolute gem 😍.

[@davidwilkins5932]

Beatlemania is very clean. 🎼😶🎶 My first reaction of yours, and it’s a great one. The extensive comments, trivia, and other footage makes it seem nearly a documentary unto itself. Your overall presentation and editing choices are splendid. I hope to see more examples. Reactors have become too numerous, but really good ones are a delightful and rare find.

[@porflepopnecker4376]

The babe who's hanging out with Grandpa at the Circe Club is legendary magazine model Margaret Nolan, who would appear in "Goldfinger' the same year as both the first golden girl (during the credits) and Bond's friend "Dink." The grumpy old man on the train with the Beatles would also appear in "Goldfinger" as the man who gives Bond a bar of gold over dinner.

[@gsparkman]

I was 10-years old when this film was released, and was already a fan. I saw the film at the Fox theater in Venice, California. In those days they ran the film continuously from morning to night, and once you bought a ticket you could stay as long you wanted. I stayed for four showings the first weekend, and then went the next Saturday for another four viewings. I couldn’t get enough. I would go home after movies and put the album on. Beatlemania was real, even for a boy in California. PS: Fantastic reaction to this film. I learned a lot about from you. Thanks!

[@bjm9071]

Director Richard Lester is still alive and very underrated. Besides this and Help, he also directed some of my favorite films including Superman, The Three Musketeers, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, and Robin and Marian. I would love to see an in depth interview with him or a documentary. Oh, the stories he could tell! BTW, he grew up near me in suburban Philadelphia!

[@mypassionsdreams]

Loved watching this!!! The Beatles have been my favorite band since seeing them on Ed Sullivan on 2-9-64. A Hard Day’s Night has been a top favorite film of mine for forever. Never saw The Beatles live, but I sure loved the Beatlemania days! Thanks for posting, and for keeping it very clean. 😘

[@FredGarnett]

I saw it when it first came out in 1964 at a time when you bought a ticket to the cinema and could stay there all day if you liked the film and wanted to see it again. I did that with Goldfinger which came out at the same time. However for Hard Days Night the queues were so long that you were thrown out of the cinema after the film finished and couldn't watch it for a second time... Great review you spotted a lot of interesting points I hadn't spotted before; thanks ;)

[@rg3388]

Thanks so much for this "very clean" bit of "Beatlemania," Marty.

[@cyrilmauras4247]

Fun Fact: Phill Collins was a teenager in the audience in the filmed "TV Concert" in the end, but he wasn't in any of the audience scenes in the film.

[@TTM9691]

Did you watch the video? He talks about that in this very video, lol

[@CinemaMusic55]

The woman reporter who asks Ringo "Are you a mod or a rocker?" was Marianne Stone. She had bit parts in many British films and television series from the late 1940s through to the 1970s. "The 39 Steps" (Kenneth More version, woman behind desk), "Venetian Bird" 1952 (Woman walking by as John Gregson is taking peoples' photos)..... many of the Carry On films, tons more. She is virtually unrecognisable in "A Hard Day's Night" from her earlier film appearances as she had undergone drastic nose surgery. Another classic film that it would be great to see you cover is "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" (1960) Norman Rossington is in that one too. A classic.

[@philipcone357]

Very nice job!

[@MoviesWithMarty]

Thank you so much Philip! Thank you for watching too

[@kathyastrom1315]

I was born in 1966, so I missed out on Beatlemania as it happened, but I still grew up with their music and their films. As a kid, Help was my favorite movie, but Hard Day’s Night has been my favorite for several decades now. Such iconic dialogue, and the group’s on-screen charisma just burns like a sun. Every time I watch it, a different sequence becomes my favorite. This time around, I loved George’s encounter with the ad guy and his assistant. It is such an acerbic smackdown of the complete fakery all that image creating is. It even continues today with online trendsetters, most or all of whom are promoting just those things that the ad people are telling them to.

[@Kieop]

Exactly, influencers 60s style.

[@marysweeney7370]

I thoroughly enjoyed your reaction. I especially liked the trivia section and from the start I was hoping you would enjoy the movie resulting in your increased love for the Beatles and that you'd have a greater appreciation for the phenomenon of Beatlemania. I also was excited to hear an English person's take on the old jokes. I myself am a great lover of British humor, but the I don't feel as able to relate to the "oldies" of British humor. You seemed to laugh quite a lot. I appreciate the one-liners etc. but mostly appreciate the film as a way to spend time with the Beatles! Yep, the guys you see in the film are pretty close to "real Life" and certainly consistent with the chaps in the many, many hours of Beatles interview footage. Finally, my favorite laugh out loud bit is when "granddad" is in the police station carrying on in his Irish Republican way. I'm sure it was still a bit of a hot button subject at the time, but making sport of it was hilarious. On Ringo, I seem to remember reading that his walk about bits were reminiscent of Chaplin's lovable tramp. I don't know if it was intentional or later commented on by critics as just a result of Ringo's comedic timing and manner.

[@beholdmessiah6526]

Beatlemania very clean , great reaction

[@MoviesWithMarty]

Thank you so much for watching and for letting me know too. I hope you're well! I'm so glad you liked it

[@lindalee5866]

Excellent reaction and dive into the nuts & bolts of the film! So much fun!

[@andrewcharles459]

The Hard Days Night LP was the first LP I ever owned. I had the great pleasure of finally seeing this movie on the big screen just a couple of years ago. If you ever get that opportunity, take it.

[@lewistaylor1965]

6:34...The girl on the train who repeats 'Prisoners' is Patti Boyd who married George Harrison...and then Eric Clapton...and then...etc.

[@JC-rb3hj]

Very clean and nicely done!

[@petermarkowiak4729]

Great Reaction

[@janewatkins9801]

Help!! is also fabulous Marty. You would love it 😊❤.

[@MoviesWithMarty]

Thank you Jane! I'm hoping to get around to watching it sometime, it looks amazing. I can't wait, as I think I will too!

[@Andrew-t6z]

Thanks.. very clean.

[@joannerichards1750]

Fab-ulous reaction - very clean! I was15, still in high school, living in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania during the summer of '64. The local cinema was semi-palatial (there were no cineplexes then). I snuck into the theater through the rear exit with my friend on a Saturday afternoon. The movie was a huge hit everywhere - we loved it !

[@laurab68707]

Yes, yes, yes, the fans were like this. A wild time. I was only 9 at the time, but I became just as crazy about them. Glad you watched this. Such a fun movie. A major hit!

[@Will_I_am59]

Nice reaction :) One of my earliest memories is of seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. I grew up during Beatlemania ;) I can't tell you how many times I've watched this movie and it always makes me smile. Yes, the girls really did scream like that during their concerts, at times being so loud that the Beatles couldn't hear themselves play. I appreciate your review and insights into the movie and your inclusion of the trivia at the end

[@MsAppassionata]

I went to see this in the theater and it was so packed that I had to squeeze into the front row. The line to get into the theater went way down the block. Girls inside screamed at the screen even though The Beatles, of course, could not hear them. 😂 Fun, crazy days.

[@celinhabr1]

The way i love this movie. It's so funny and they are just great.

[@Ian-lx1iz]

(2:51) Paul _has_ to emphasise early on that (Wilfred Bramble) is 'very CLEAN' because the British public up to that point, have _only_ known him as a 'DIRTY old man'.

[@Ian-lx1iz]

Whoops! - Yeah, you pick up on this at the end.

[@MoviesWithMarty]

@@Ian-lx1iz Ahh, thank you anyway Ian, I very much appreciate the info either way. It helps to let everyone know who hasn't seen the trivia too! Thank you so much for watching the video too, I hope you're well

[@papercup2517]

A very clean review... I saw AHDN in the cinema in '64, and yes, we did scream, a bit, though doing so felt definitely surreal, seeing as they weren't actually there...Later that year, after their introductory tour of the US, the Beatles did their second major tour of the UK and I saw them live, at last. And there was serious screaming. This so-called Beatlemania was I believe a significant socio-psycho-sexual phenomenon, which felt to us young girls like the champagne cork finally being let out of the bottle, as girls everywhere - and quite a lot of guys - dropped their inhibitions, trained into them from childhood, to act ladylike and be 'good' girls, so as not to be confused with girls of loose morals. Throughout the rest of the sixties, triggered by the tremendous impact of the Beatles, many of those stiff old behavioural codes began to slip away, and people in general began to act more naturally, for example behaving more spontaneously and responding individually rather than following a fixed set of social rules, and, led by the Beatles, no longer feeling ashamed of and trying to disguise their native regional accents. It's hard to explain it all in just a few words, but there was far more to it than just a rather annoying 'pop' phenomenon involving a lot of idiotic teenage girls, as some people assume. The Beatles admittedly looked a bit tired and over it all in that late 1964 performance, perhaps not surprisingly, after all that year's experiences, with non-stop touring and promoting the film. I suspect they were barely playing their instruments, since no-one could hear them through the dense wall of sound coming from the audience. This along with more dangerous aspects of Beatlemania was the reason they gave up touring and all live performances, and became a studio band, where they could finally hear what they were playing, and continue to develop their craft, in earnest, resulting in some of the best and most enduring music the world had ever heard.

[@TTM9691]

That was fantastic, thank you for sharing such a personal (and accurate) remembrance of the period.

[@BryanWhite-zr5mq]

ageless film can probably qoute this in my sleep everything beatles related never fails in my book

[@stephenulmer3781]

I love The Beatles! They're before my time but I get the hype and I myself think they don't have a bad song. With them it's one great song after another 😊

[@BeverlyDwyer-u1p]

I was 11 years old when I saw this in the theater. I remember being extremely angry because all the girls in the theater were screaming their heads off. I actually wanted to see the movie. I almost left when my best friend started screaming along.

[@etherealtb6021]

Lester's The Knack and How to Get It is really good!

[@TTM9691]

My favorite non-Beatle film he did, by far, is his incredible version of "The Three Musketeers" (1973). The definitive version (in sound).

[@melenatorr]

Green stamps: they could be adhered to pages in a booklet, and were connected to purchases. After you collected enough, you could bring them to a (store?) and redeem them. I remember our parents bought two plush Siamese cats that way, one for my sister, one for me.

[@MoviesWithMarty]

Aha! Thank you Melena. I thought I'd heard about them before, but wasn't too sure whilst watching it. Yeah they're like voucher books. Oh cool! That's so cute! Thank you for sharing and for watching! 🤗

[@joelake7986]

The Maysles' brothers documentary "First U.S. Visit" is an excellent companion to this movie, since it shows the real-life of the Beatles at that time, which was so similar to to their portrayal in this film. Check it out, even if you don't share it here.

[@TTM9691]

Completely agree. That one is hard to get, not even sure if it's on You Tube. I believe they're planning on re-releasing it next year with a bunch of extra footage.

[@lewistaylor1965]

'Help' is obviously a must see...and in a similar vein with Dick Lesters direction (the last Beatle film he directed a year after Hard Days Night)...It's another gem and showcase for Beatle songs and humour based around a story about Ringos ring gemstone ...Just great fun and I read that the Beatles wanted a holiday to break their heavy schedule so the film was shot in places they wanted to holiday in, Austrian skiing and the Bahamas...Incidently the Beatles loved the Goons who both Dick Lester and George Martin had worked with prior to the Beatles so that played a part somewhat in choices of visual and audio selections for early career

[@michelereynolds3527]

The Beatles were in my parents generation and as a kid I had a terrible attitude towards older music. But because of my Grandmother I did have a love of older movies. So one day when I was 13 hard days night was on TCM so I had nothing better to do so I watched it. I love this movie and it helped me appreciate past generations of music. I now listen to music from any time and all different genres. I even listen to my kids music 🙂

[@jnagarya519]

Writer Alun Owen was originally from Liverpool.

[@MoviesWithMarty]

Thank you for that, handy to know! Thank you for watching too

[@jnagarya519]

@@MoviesWithMarty He was chosen because it was believed he could better relate to Liverpudlian.

[@pjev93]

Very clean! Great rewatching this with you, you picked up on several things I've never noticed before in probably hundreds of watches. When I watched this for the first time I must have been 7 maybe? So I completely missed things like the meaning of the Coke thing. Also, English is not my first language, so I was relying on the Norwegian subtitles to follow the dialogue for a long time, and there were probably stuff lost in translation. Interesting trivia too! Knew some of it already, but learned some new things as well :) Hope you decide to do the Help! movie too!

[@AndyMakesPlaylists]

Nice, Marty. Pattie Boyd and Jenny Boyd were celebrity models, so they weren't nobodies. Pattie inspired various George Harrison love songs, including the hit "Something" (in the way she moves), but also Eric Clapton's hits "Layla" and "Wonderful Tonight." So she was quite the muse. Jenny married Mick Fleetwood, founder of Fleetwood Mac. None of these marriages worked out, however. You asked, so: I strongly recommend the Beatles' follow-up movie "Help!," also directed by Richard Lester. "Yellow Submarine" is an imaginative and fun animated film, but the Beatles had little to do with it. Can't recommend "Magical Mystery Tour" which lacked a script and a director. Re: the accents. In 1980, I talked to a BBC director who recalled that when Hollywood talkies arrived in Britain at the end of the 1920s, people were hearing Americans' accents for the first time. They DID have a very hard time understanding the American accents, particularly in the gangster movies. "But we learned fast," he told me. "We HAD to." If you're going to watch just one Connery Bond movie, the best one is "Goldfinger," but I don't think any of his Bond films are bad. #MoviesWithMarty @MoviesWithMarty

[@Kathmak]

Beatlemania is very clean 👌

[@ChuckDrennen]

If you can find it, you should watch their second film”Help!”

[@robertshows5100]

I was 11 years old. Saw it about five times

[@MoviesWithMarty]

Oh wow! I bet the experience was electrifying! The big screen would have been amazing with this. A full on concert! Thank you so much for watching and letting me know Robert

[@beatmet2355]

Yes, their fans definitely carried on like that. One of the cameramen had to go to the dentist because the intensity of the screams caused the fillings in his teeth to come loose, or at least make them very painful. Great job noticing the instrumental music resembling the Brubeck recording, I noticed that years ago and love it. Some of the instrumental music was actually available on the US version of this soundtrack, including the track you mentioned. I would say this is the high mark of their films, IMO. The others are at least one viewing, you may enjoy them, as well. Except maybe Magical Mystery Tour lol

[@jesgear]

This was my favorite movie for many, many years. Great reaction 👍 Please continue with The Beatles' other films. I'm subscribing to your reactions, Marty; although they're not on the level of Beatlemania, they are very clean 😉😜

[@Grithron2]

Random thoughts: The "I fought the war" man is the same actor who played SIr Edward the double-agent in Morecambe & WIse's Intelligence Men. The "black cab" and "labourers' tent" scenes are now hard to disassociate from the opening scenes of The Rutles. That dialectical word grotty seems to have arisen simultaneously in the South-West and the North-East (consider the story of how Reg Presley came by his band-name). Swingball in pubs - in the '80s, on the Isle of Wight, I seem to recall. Whar's the short end of the "straw"? The jazz version of the title tune - hidden classic. (Phil Collins is one of the boys?) In the '60s there were crazy fans like that for all groups, even Freddie & The Dreamers...even The NIce (try their live radio 1 broadcast if you dis!)

[@Kieop]

Another fun and very clean fact: In this film, they make a point of referring to both of Paul's grandfathers, one of whom lives with his parents. In reality, Paul never knew either of his grandfathers. AND Wilfrid Brambell is YOUNGER than Paul's real life father, let alone grandfather.😉

[@captainmoretokin2172]

Very clean Beatlemania. I became a fan of the Beatles in 1964 and here we are in 2024. WOW! That cracked me up when i saw the name of your patron Nameless Human Being. I'm glad i wasn't drinking something when i read it. P.S. The Beatles will still be talked about a hundred years from now. I'm only assuming people will still be in existence that far into the future, but if there are, they will. Help, i need somebody......Help, Not just anybody.......Help, i need someone....... Help.

[@kend1964]

Beatlemania!😊

[@johnmorgan9553]

Hi , the 12 string guitar john lennon plays in if i fell , was just found in an attic after 50 years , and sold for $2.9 million !

[@bryancurtis220]

This is the first time I've ve seen anyone react to this, and I thoroughly enjoyed it..Thank you so much. Yes, please do a reaction to HELP as well, another great film. Thanks again, you now have a new subscriber.

[@troidva]

George Harrison became a friend of Python's Eric Idle and appeared in Idle's 1978 TV spoof of the Beatles called "The Rutles." George later became a producer (and chief source of funding) on Python's movie "Life of Brian."