Help!
by Richard Lester
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Actor: The BeatlesDirector: Richard Lester
Brand: EMD
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.75:1
Running Time: 149 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Capitol
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- The Beatles followed up their debut film, A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, with this fanciful spy spoof. When Ringo adds a new ring to his collection, he's unaware of how important and dangerous this piece of jewelry is. On one hand, a religious cult considers it a sacred object and the wearer must become a sacrifice to their gods. On the other hand, the ring has magical abilities that hold the key to
DVD Reviews of Help!
DVD Review: Question, actually
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this movie and will give it five stars, but I haven't actually seen the Deluxe Edition. My question is: does this version come only in wide screen? Is there any option of watching it in full screen? I ask because my Grandmother desperately wants this movie but she has a strong preference for full screen. Anyway, thanks.DVD Review: For Beatles fans
Summary: 4 Stars
Fun to watch! It has a kind of a plot to it. It is good that it makes Ringo the central character. He was most generally left in the shadows. Great movie for your collection if you are a Beatles fan.DVD Review: Rose
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought The Beatles Help DVD for my daughter for part of her birthday and she loved it. She had the VHS tape of Help some time ago and loaned it to someone and didn't get it back. She loved this DVD, of course it had much more on it than the VHS tape did. Anyone that is a Beatles Fan would love this. I watched it with my daughter and I would recommend this DVD.DVD Review: Uninspired silliness
Summary: 2 Stars
Disjointed, sophomoric, and joyless, "Help!" is a major step back from the far more satisfying "A Hard Day's Night".
The movie's only saving grace is its music, but you may find yourself getting really restless waiting for the next musical number to begin.
DVD Review: Too Much!
Summary: 3 Stars
I love The Beatles. I really do. But to end up paying about 150 including shipping for this box sex is a little insane. It's a fantastic box set, and worth a decent amount of money. But Amazon, you should lower your price so the lesser financially able Beatles fans such as myself dont have to go out of their way to buy this like I did.
Description of Help!
Disc 1 (96 minutes)-HELP! Theatrical Movie
-Digitally restored and newly created 5.1 soundtrack.
Disc 2 (57 minutes)
The Beatles in Help! 30 minute documentary about the making of the film with Richard Lester, the cast and crew. Includes exclusive behind the scenes footage of The Beatles on set.
- A Missing Scene Featuring Wendy Richard
- The Restoration of Help! An in depth look at the restoration process
- Memories of Help! The cast and crew reminisce
- Theatrical Trailers 2 US trailers and 1 Spanish trailer
- 1965 US Radio Spots - Hidden in disc menus
After the worldwide success of A Hard Day's Night, the Beatles and director Richard Lester reunited for a follow-up film, Eight Arms to Hold You. Well, that wasn't the final title; a pleading Lennon-McCartney tune provided the catchier handle: Help! A loose semispoof of the globe-trotting James Bond pictures, Help! has always been considered a somewhat disorganized comedown from its predecessor; but it presents "the famous Beatles" even more clearly as the English cousins of the Marx Brothers. The plot has an Eastern religious cult declaring that the new ring on Ringo's finger is the key element in a human sacrifice; they will stop at nothing to obtain it. Meanwhile, a mad scientist (crazed Victor Spinetti, who also appeared in A Hard Day's Night and Magical Mystery Tour) believes that if he has the ring, he could--dare we say it?--rule the world. The songs, including "Ticket to Ride" and "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away," are filmed with gleeful ingenuity, in locations such as the Bahamas, an Austrian ski resort, and the Salisbury Plain. The relentless nonsense becomes nearly the equivalent of a swinging-'60s Alice in Wonderland: for instance, Paul shrinks to the size of a gum wrapper, John fishes a season ticket out of his soup, George wears a top hat on the ski slopes, the lads sing the "Ode to Joy" to a lion. Oh, and the film is dedicated to Elias Howe, "who in 1846 invented the sewing machine." Brilliant. --Robert Horton
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